PBDB Collection

QLO-2, Quintanilla la Ojada: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri

	Pycnodontoidea indet.	Corral et al. 2021
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	cf. Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861	Corral et al. 2021
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae

	Phyllodontinae indet. Darteville and Casier 1949	Corral et al. 2021

	Paralbulinae indet. Estes 1969	Corral et al. 2021
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae

	Enchodontidae indet. Woodward 1901	Corral et al. 2021
Actinopteri

	Acanthomorpha indet. (Rosen 1973)	Corral et al. 2021
	spelled with current rank as Acanthomorphata
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes

	Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937	Corral et al. 2021
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

	cf. Anomoeodus sp. Forir 1887	Corral et al. 2021
Reptilia - Mosasauridae

	Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852	Corral et al. 2021

	Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889	Corral et al. 2021
	MCNA 14840

	Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822	Corral et al. 2021
	MCNA 14903 and MCNA 16233 (cast; original = JISL-2124 [private collection])
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. (Cope 1869)	Corral et al. 2021
	MCNA 15151 (cast; original in the private collection of J.I. Sáez Laría as JISL 3137)
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae

	Rhombodus sp. Dames 1881

	Rhombodus binkhorsti Dames 1881
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes

	Coupatezia fallax (Arambourg 1952)
	original and current combination Raja fallax
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae

	Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz 1838)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae

	Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810

	Carcharias heathi Case and Cappetta 1997
	synonym of Carcharias samhammeri
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

	Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939

	Squalicorax pristodontus (Agassiz 1835)

	Squalicorax kaupi (Agassiz 1843)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

	Cretolamna aff. appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
	recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae

	Plicatoscyllium lehneri (Leriche 1938)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

	Palaeogaleus faujasi (Geyn 1937)
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

	Ganopristis leptodon Arambourg 1935
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

	Rhinobatos ibericus Cappetta and Corral 1999

	Rhinobatos echavei Cappetta and Corral 1999
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes

	Vascobatis albaitensis Cappetta and Corral 1999
see common names

Geography

Country:	Spain	State/province:	Burgos
Coordinates:	42.9° North, 3.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	35.3° North, 2.9° West
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Valdenoceda
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Scattered vertebrate fossils, pyritized orbitoids and euhedral pyrite occur within the two first meters of bioturbated dolomitised carbonates that crop out in the lower part of the formation, immediately above and closely related to the unconformable boundary between the 'Rioseco Member' and the Valdenoceda Formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	bioturbation poorly lithified sandy dolomite
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: Sandy dolomites and organic-matter-rich clays organised in metre-scale upward thinning sequences, one of them also containing fossil vertebrates
Environment:	open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Inner ramp

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	bulk,sieve
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa/Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain (Institutional acronym: MCNA).

Metadata

Database number:	213730
Authorizer:	M. Clapham, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Clapham, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2020-09-09 22:15:56	Last modified:	2021-04-15 11:03:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	2020-09-09 22:15:56
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

73800.

J. C. Corral, A. Berreteaga, and H. Cappetta. 2016. Upper Maastrichtian shallow marine environments and neoselachian assemblages in North Iberian palaeomargin (Castilian Ramp, Spain). Cretaceous Research 57:639-661 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

75739		J.-C. Corral, A. Berreteaga, F. J. Poyato-Ariza, N. Bardet, H. Cappetta, M. Floquet, H. Astibia, A. Badiola, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2021. Stratigraphy, age, and vertebrate palaeontology of the latest Cretaceous Quintanilla la Ojada locality (Basque-Cantabrian Region, northern Spain): a synthesis. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(7):91-117 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
76439		M. Riccetto, S. Monlleví, S. Gallego and A. Blanco. 2016. The Fontllonga‐6 site (Tremp Formation, north‐eastern Spain): A lagoon ecosystem of the Early Maastrichtian. In F. Torcida Fernández‐Baldor, J. I. Canudo, P. Huerta, & X. Pereda (eds.), VII Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Libro de Resúmenes 119-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]