Suterranya-1 (gypsum bed): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Fusioolithidae
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Megaloolithus trempii
Moratalla 1998
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synonym of Fusioolithus baghensis | |||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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cf. Richardoestesia sp.
Currie et al. 1990
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Torices Hernández 2002 | 1 specimen | |||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Igdabatis indicus
Prasad and Cappetta 1993
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Kriwet et al. 2007 | 70 specimens | |||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Rhombodontidae
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Rhombodus ibericus
Kriwet et al. 2007
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Kriwet et al. 2007 | 19 specimens | |||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain | State/province: | Cataluña | County: | Lleida |
Coordinates: | 42.2° North, 1.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 0.8° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 494 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gypsiferous,gray marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a grey marl rich in gypsum crystals...The gypsiferous bed intercalates with coal-bearing grey marls, limestones and shell beds (mainly consisting of remains of the snail Melanoides and the clam Cyrena)." | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1990s |
Metadata
Also known as: | Suterraña | ||
Database number: | 36731 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-02-11 08:29:56 | Last modified: | 2021-03-29 08:18:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-11 08:29:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
36723. | J. J. Moratalla. 1998. Spanish dinosaur eggs. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 26-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
25834 | ETE | J. Kriwet, R. Soler-Gijón, and N. López-Martínez. 2007. Neoselachians from the upper Campanian and lower Maatrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyrenees, northern Spain. Palaeontology 50(5):1051-1071 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
70303 | J. L. Sanz. 2000. Yacimientos ibéricos de dinosaurios [Iberian dinosaur localities]. Dinosaurios: Los Señores del Pasado [Dinosaurs: The Lords of the Land] 267-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
55401 | A. G. Sellés and B. Vila. 2015. Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):125-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
55386 | M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
9837 | A. Torices Hernández. 2002. Los dinosaurios terópodos del Cretácico Superior de la Cuenca de Tremp (Pirineos Sur-Centrales, Lleida). Coloquios de Paleontología 53:139-146 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
55315 | B. Vila, M. Suñer, A. Santos-Cubedo, J. I. Canudo, B. Poza and A. Galobart. 2011. Saurischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 130-168 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |