Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 11: Late/Upper Barremian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
13 specimens
    = Eodortoka morellana n. gen., n. sp. Pérez-García et al. 2014
Pérez-García et al. 2014
Holotype. CMP-MS3, a left hyoplastron
    = Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
Cadena and Joyce 2015
    = Eodortoka morellana n. gen., n. sp. Pérez-García et al. 2014
Pérez-García 2017
Reptilia
Neosuchia indet. Clark 1988
teeth
Iguanodon cf. bernissartensis Boulenger 1881
2 individuals
CMP-11-1, a complete right maxilla and CMP-11-2, a partial right maxilla
    = Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881
Gasulla et al. 2014
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Valenciana County:Castellón
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 0.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Barremian
Age range of interval:130.00000 - 125.45000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arcillas de Morella
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Arcillas de Morella"

Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:CMP-11, Iguanodon bernissartensis quarry
Database number:152639
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos, A. Dunhill Enterer:J. Tennant, E. Vlachos, B. Allen, M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-11-28 11:31:41 Last modified:2022-01-25 04:10:48
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-28 11:31:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55385. J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega, F. Escaso and A. Pérez-García. 2011. Los yacimientos de vertebrados de la Formación Arcillas de Morella (Aptiense inferior) [The vertebrate localities of the Arcillas Formation of Morella (lower Aptian)]. In A. Pérez-García, F. Gascó, J. M. Gasulla, & F. Escaso (eds.), Viajando a Mundos Pretéritos 157-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

62214 E. Cadena and W. G. Joyce. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clades Platychelyidae and Dortokidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1):3-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]
49177 J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, F. Ortega and J. L. Sanz. 2014. New hadrosauriform cranial remains from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (lower Aptian) of Morella, Spain. Cretaceous Research 47(1):19-24 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
62869 A. Pérez-García. 2017. The Iberian fossil record of turtles: an update. Journal of Iberian Geology 1-37 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
49979 A. Pérez-García, J. M. Gasulla, and F. Ortega. 2014. Eodortoka morellana gen. et sp. nov., the first pan-pleurodiran turtle (Dortokidae) defined in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. Cretaceous Research 48:130-138 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
79237 U. Villanueva-Amadoz, C. Santisteban, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2015. Age determination of the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Spain). Historical Biology 27(3–4):389-387 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]