Mina Valero, Buñol: Tithonian, Spain
collected by E. Boscá, Tortajada y Albuixech 1903, 1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Mystriosaurus sp.
Munster 1834
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010 | |||||||||
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Teleosaurus sp.
Geoffroy 1825
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010 | |||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Valencia | County: | Hoya de Buñol-Chiva |
| Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 0.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.5° North, 14.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Higueruelas |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow grainstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandy ochre limestones" | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
| Geology comments: "carbonate ramp" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | E. Boscá, Tortajada y Albuixech | Collection dates: | 1903, 1996 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 120578 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-11-18 09:32:22 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-11-18 09:32:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52727. | J. B. Bataller. 1960. Los vertebrados del Cretácico Español [The vertebrates from the Spanish Cretaceous]. Notas y Comunicaciones del Instituto Geologico y Minero de España 60:141-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 38554 | J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, X. Pereda Suberbiola, J. Company and M. Belinchón. 2010. Dientes de arcosaurios (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) del Jurásico Superior de Buñol (Valencia) [Archosaurian teeth (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Buñol (Valencia)]. Geogaceta 48:79-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |