Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 9 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as CMP-9

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.5° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Arcillas de Morella"

•Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; red claystone

• a low-energy deposit on a muddy plain
• "red and slightly mottled clayey limonites, of very fine granulometry"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, D. Gömez-Fernández, F. Ortega, J. L. Sanz and P. Yagüe. 2008. Primer evidencia de dientes aislados atribuidos a Spinosauridae (Theropoda) en al Aptiano inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Europa: Formación Arcillas se Morella (España) [First evidence of isolated teeth attributed to Spinosauridae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe: Arcillas Formation of Morella (Spain)]. Ameghiniana 45(4):649-662 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89293: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
? Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon bernissartensis2 Boulenger 1881 ornithopod
mostly one individual
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
tooth, non-spinosaurid
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet.1 Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
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