Lo Hueco, Fuentes (G1) (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (40.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Villalba de la Sierra Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Garumnian", upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gypsiferous, gray, argillaceous mudstone and sandstone

• "proximal flooded muddy plain", "close to the distributary channels"
• marly mudstone with high proportion of clay minerals (> 85%), moderate gypsum (< 15%), and low calcite (5-10%). Mainly planar or parallel, locally wavy and massive bedding. Some thin sandy interbeds.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2007

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: F. Ortega, J. L. Sanz, F. Barroso-Barcemilla, O. Cambra-Moo, F. Escaso, M. García-Oliva, F. Marcos Fernández, A. Pérez García, M. Segura and A. Torices. 2008. Macrovertebrados del Cretácico Superior de "Lo Hueco" (Fuentes, Cuenca) [Macrovertebrates from the Upper Cretaceous of "Lo Hueco" (Fuentes, Cuenca)]. In J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, L. Piñuela and J. C. García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 165-166 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91781: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2009, edited by Philip Mannion, Patricia Holroyd, Jonathan Tennant and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet.2 Huxley 1880 bony fish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Lissamphibia indet.13 Haeckel 1866 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Squamata -
? Iguania indet.2 squamates
Scincomorpha indet.13 Camp 1923 squamates
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria "indet. 2"2 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
HUE-EC-13 (humerus HUE-1647, femur HUE-1183, tibia and fibula HUE-1612)
Titanosauria "indet. A"4 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
morphotype A teeth; HUE-30, 90, 685, 702, 1125, 1212, 1636, 3793, 4723, 6155, 6809, 8013, 8743
Titanosauria "indet. B"4 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
morphotype B teeth; HUE-540, 2687, 3891, 4040, 4148, 4893, 5575, 6942, 7041
Titanosauria indet.4 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
unassignable teeth; HUE-5498, 5809, 6889
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra n. gen. n. sp.6 Mocho et al. 2024 saltasaurid
HUE-EC-04 - holotype
 Saurischia -
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi n. gen. n. sp.3 Díez Díaz et al. 2016 sauropod
three forms
Ampelosaurus sp.5 Le Loeuff 1995 sauropod
MCCM-HUE-8741 (braincase)
 Theropoda -
Neotheropoda indet.1 Bakker 1986 neotheropod
metatarsal IV (HUE-01818)
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Richardoestesia sp.13 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
tooth type 3
Dromaeosaurinae indet.12 Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran
Velociraptorinae indet.2 Barsbold 1983 maniraptoran
tooth type 2; HUE-02696 (tibia + proximal tarsals)
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp.2 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
 Ornithischia -
? Ankylosauria indet.2 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Musturzabalsuchus sp.11, "Agaresuchus fontisensis n. gen. n. sp." = Allodaposuchus fontisensis8, "Lohuecosuchus megadontos n. gen. n. sp." = Allodaposuchus megadontos7
Musturzabalsuchus sp.11 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
"Agaresuchus fontisensis n. gen. n. sp." = Allodaposuchus fontisensis8 Narváez et al. 2016 crocodilian
HUE-02502 - holotype (complete skull, right lower jaw and cervical vertebra)
"Lohuecosuchus megadontos n. gen. n. sp." = Allodaposuchus megadontos7 Narváez et al. 2015 crocodilian
 Testudines -
Pancryptodira indet.2 Joyce et al. 2004 turtle
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
"Elochelys convenarum" = Iberoccitanemys atlanticum10, Foxemys mechinorum9
"Elochelys convenarum" = Iberoccitanemys atlanticum10 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 sideneck turtle
Foxemys mechinorum9 Tong et al. 1998 sideneck turtle
HUE-1220
Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet.2 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet.13 Huxley 1861 bowfin
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.2 Cuvier 1825 gar
cf. Lepisosteidae indet.13 Cuvier 1825 gar
atlas
 Holostei -
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Albulidae indet.13 Bleeker 1859 bonefish
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet.2 Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.2 Cuvier 1795 snail