Suterranya-1 (gypsum bed): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 1990

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Fusioolithidae
Megaloolithus trempii Moratalla 1998
synonym of Fusioolithus baghensis
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990
Torices Hernández 2002 1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis indicus Prasad and Cappetta 1993
Kriwet et al. 2007 70 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus ibericus Kriwet et al. 2007
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
Geological group:Tremp Formation:La Posa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: G. aegyptiacus zone; c. 10 m above the contact of the Tremp Formation with the Aren Sandstone (Unit 1)

La Posa Fm. = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019)
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:

25834ETE 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]