Rocha-Pelejón, RPAH (Galve syncline): Late/Upper Hauterivian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Mesosuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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= Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | ||||||
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Neosuchia indet.
Clark 1988
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis cf. crassidens
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
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Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | ||||||
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= aff. Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Tennant et al. 2016 | ||||||
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cf. Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Bernissartia sp.
Dollo 1883
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Teruel |
| Coordinates: | 40.7° North, 0.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.0° North, 9.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Hauterivian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hauterivian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Castellar | ||||
| Local section: | Galve | Local bed: | 250 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Can't find reference to "Unit 3/4" in Diaz and Yebenez 1987. Comments below refer to units 3 and 4. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy "siliciclastic" |
| Secondary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: Unit 3: Formed predominately of red limes, with rare thick lenses of terrigenous deposits (Molina and Yebenes 1987). "The coarser terrigenous material (fine to medium sand) is not typically channelized, but most frequently occurs in lenticular bedding and isolated dunes (Diaz et al. 1984)." Unit 4: "formed by sequences composed of marls and micrites. Carbonate nodules frequently occur within the marls, and the micrites reveal desiccation features." (Diaz et al. 1984) See also Molina and Yebenes 1987. | |
| Environment: | deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: "Unit 3 is characterized by the disappearance of the carbonate facies and predominance of mudstones. This is interpreted as a muddy intertidal flat deposit...Despite a large discontinuity existing within unit 3, or at its upper or lower boundaries, the intertidal facies can be integrated withing[sic].." terregenous delta-derived material prograding into a shallow lagoon (Diaz et al. 1987). Unit 4: "This facies correspond to shallow coastal lagoon deposits, formed in fresh to brackish water (Diaz et al. 1987)" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some genera,some macrofossils,ichnofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Material is in the J. M. Herrero collection (Galve).
Unit 4: abundant Charophytes, Bivalves, Gastropods, fish teeth and vertebrate remains. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Rocha Pelejon, Teruel, Spain | ||
| Database number: | 36378 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | R. Whatley, P. Mannion, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-27 12:58:29 | Last modified: | 2007-01-25 16:42:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-27 12:58:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7243. | 5% 17900 | A. D. Buscalioni and J. L. Sanz. 1987. Cocodrilos del Cretacico Inferior de Galve (Teruel, España). Estudios Geologicos (Madrid) extr.:23-43 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 7242 | 5% 24760 | M. Diaz, A. Yébenes, A. Goy and J. L. Sanz. 1984. Landscapes inhabited by Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous archosaurs (Galve, Teruel, Spain). In W.-E. Reif & F. Westphal (ed.), Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Short Papers 67-72 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen] |
| 7240 | 5% 17900 | M. D. Molina and A. Yébenes. 1987. La sedimentacion litoral y continental durante el Cretacico Inferior. Sinclinal de Galve, Teruel. Estudios Geologicos (Madrid) extr.:3-21 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy] |
| 19754 | ETE | J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, M. Aurell, B. Bádenas, J. L. Barco, G. Cuenca-Bescós, and J. Ipas. 2004. Estado de las investigaciones sobre los vertebrados del Jurásico Superior y Cretácico Interior de Galve (Teruel) [State of the investigations into the vertebrates of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Galve (Teruel)]. Estudios Geológicos 60:179-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 32167 | ETE | B. Sánchez-Hernández, M. J. Benton, and D. Naish. 2007. Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249:180-215 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] |
| 59838 | J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |