Font de Bullidor (A-FIG05): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by Vila 2003
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Megaloolithus siruguei
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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42 specimens | |||||||||
| eggs | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Cataluña | County: | Berguedà |
| Coordinates: | 42.2° North, 1.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| 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: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Tremp | Formation: | Grey Garumnian | Member: | Middle |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "garumniense gris"; level A-FIG05; 'Grey Garumnian' = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "gray mudstones" | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Vila | Collection dates: | 2003 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 169281 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-05-14 15:52:11 | Last modified: | 2021-04-20 11:15:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-05-14 15:52:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61144. | A. M. Bravo, B. Vila, A. Galobart and O. Oms. 2005. Restos de huevos de dinosaurio en el Cretácico Superior del sinclinal de Vallcebre (Berguedà, provincia de Barcelona) [Remains of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Vellcebre syncline (Berguedà, Barcelona province)]. Revista Española de Paleontología Num.Ext.10:49-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 55400 | B. Vila, R. Gaete, A. Galobart, O. Oms, J. Peralba and J. Escuer. 2006. Nuevos hallazgos de dinosaurios y otros tetrápodos continentales en los Pirineos sur-centrales y orientales: resultados preliminares [New discoveries of dinosaurs and other continental tetrapods in the south-central and eastern Pyrenees: preliminary results]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno Actas:365-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76547 | B. Vila, À Galobart, A. M. Bravo and O. Oms. 2006. Megaloolithid eggs from a new Upper Cretaceous locality in the South-Eastern Pyrenees: preliminary data. III International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs, Babies, and Developmental Biology. Ameghiniana 43(4 (suppl.)):20R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55428 | B. Vila, V. Riera, A. M. Bravo, O. Oms, E. Vicens, R. Estrada, and A. Galobart. 2011. The chronology of dinosaur oospecies in south-western Europe: refinements from the Maastrichtian succession of the eastern Pyrenees. Cretaceous Research 32(3):378-386 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55314 | B. Vila, M. Suñer, B. Poza, J. Fortuny, E. Nieto and A. Galobart. 2011. The study of dinosaur fossils. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 101-129 [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] |