Pinyes, Coll de Nargó [Lower Red]: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by Baudrimont
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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| eggshells | ||||||||||
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= "Hypselosaurus" sp.
Matheron 1869
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Erben et al. 1979 | |||||||||
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= Megaloolithus cf. mamillare
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Sander et al. 1998 | |||||||||
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= Megaloolithus mamillare
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Escuer et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Megaloolithus siruguei
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Sellés et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Fusioolithidae
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Megaloolithus baghensis
Khosla and Sahni 1995
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Sellés et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| recombined as Fusioolithus baghensis | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Ophiomorpha sp.
Lundgren 1891
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Sander et al. 1998 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Cataluña | County: | Lleida |
| Coordinates: | 42.2° North, 1.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° North, 1.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 71 to 66 Ma (seriation) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Tremp | Formation: | Lower Red Garumnian | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: at least 14 levels within a 240-m section; described as "upper Tremp Fm." but this is usually called a group
"Lower Red Garumnian" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | silty,sandy marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Baudrimont |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Coll de Nargo area, Coll de Nargó Syncline | ||
| Database number: | 74526 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Carrano, A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-09 12:36:34 | Last modified: | 2022-06-23 14:47:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-09 12:36:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25015. | ETE | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1966. Nouveaux gisements de reptiles Mesozoiques en Espagne [New localities of Mesozoic reptiles in Spain]. Notas y Comunicaciones del Instituto Geologico y Minero de España 84:103-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 27285 | ETE | H. K. Erben, J. Hoefs, and K. H. Wedepohl. 1979. Paleobiological and isotopic studies of eggshells from a declining dinosaur species. Palaeontology 5(4):380-414 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 76544 | J. Escuer, X. Delclòs, F. Colombo, A. Bravo, J. Peralba, X. Martí, J. Ortega, R. Miquela, and C. Parellada. 2006. General distribution of dinosaur eggshells and clutches in the Upper Cretaceous of Coll de Nargó area (south-central Pyrenees, Spain). III International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs, Babies, and Developmental Biology. Ameghiniana 43(4 (suppl.)):17R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76263 | M. S. Fernández and A. Khosla. 2015. Parataxonomic review of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells belonging to the oofamily Megaloolithidae from India and Argentina. Historical Biology 27(2):158-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55204 | A. Galobart, A. Santos-Cubedo, M. Suñer and J. I. Canudo. 2011. Paleontological discoveries and studies. In À. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76262 | E. M. Hechenleitner, G. Grellet-Tinner, and L. E. Fiorelli. 2015. What do giant titanosaur dinosaurs and modern Australasian megapodes have in common?. PeerJ 3:e1341:1-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61140 | N. López-Martínez. 2000. Eggshell sites from the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in south-central Pyrenees (Spain). In A. M. Bravo & T. Reyes (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Extended Abstracts 95-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 13712 | ETE | J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14887 | ETE | P. M. Sander, C. Peitz, J. Gallemi and R. Cousin. 1998. Dinosaurs nesting on a red beach?. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris: Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 327:67-74 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 56555 | J. L. Sanz. 1984. Las faunas españolas de dinosaurios [The Spanish dinosaur faunas]. I Congreso Español de Geología, Segovia 497-506 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46145 | A. G. Sellés, A. M. Bravo, X. Delclòs, F. Colombo, X. Martí, J. Ortega-Blanco, and C. Parellada Galobart. 2013. Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications. Cretaceous Research 40(1):10-20 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |