La Cañada, Barranco de Escáiz: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
collected 1989-1995

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosauridae indet. Marsh 1880
1 specimen
dermal tail spine
    = Dacentrurus armatus Marsh 1877
Casanovas-Cladellas et al. 1995
    = Thyreophora indet. Nopcsa 1915
Maidment et al. 2008
    = Dacentrurus armatus Marsh 1877
Company et al. 2010
Dacentrurus sp. Lucas 1902
Casanovas-Cladellas et al. 1995 7 specimens
Lo I-1 to 8; vertebrae orig. described as stegosaurid
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Maidment et al. 2008
    = Dacentrurus armatus Marsh 1877
Company et al. 2010
Reptilia
Losillasaurus giganteus n. gen., n. sp. Casanovas et al. 2001
Casanovas et al. 2001 1 individual
MCNV - type (3 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Valencia County:Aras de los Olmos
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 0.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 7.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:980 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:157.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Villar del Arzobispo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: originally described as from the "Wealden" Collado Fm.

Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,coarse,micaceous lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "micaceous sandstones", "extremely hard"; "The sandstones have large grain sizes...mostly grains of quartz and the matrix is formed by felddspath and kaolin. It locally includes bones, fragments of carbonized plants, and soft clasts of gray clay."
Environment:channel lag
Geology comments: point bar deposit
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1989-1995
Metadata
Also known as:Escaiz, Losilla de Aras, La Carnicera, Los Serranos, Losilla I
Database number:39423
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-28 08:23:27 Last modified:2022-09-09 14:50:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-28 08:23:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16835.ETE M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, J. Pereda-Suberbiola and C. Santisteban-Bové. 1995. Presencia, por primera vez en España, de dinosaurios estegosaurios (Cretácico Inferior de Aldea de Losilla, Valencia) [Presence, for the first time in Spain, of stegosaurian dinosaurs (Lower Cretaceous of Aldea de Losilla, Valencia)]. Revista Española de Paleontología 10(1):83-89 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17673ETE J. L. Barco. 2005. Estudio y comparación del esqueleto axial de un saurópodo (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) procedente de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (Titónico-Berriasiense) de Galve, Teruel [Study and comparison of the axial skeleton of a sauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Galve, Teruel]. Treballs del Museu de Geología de Barcelona 13:15-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10657ETE M. L. Casanovas, J. V. Santafé, and J. L. Sanz. 2001. Losillasaurus giganteus, un nuevo saurópodo del tránsito Jurásico-Cretácico de la cuenca de "Los Serranos" (Valencia, España) [Losillasaurus giganteus, a new sauropod from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of the "Los Serranos" basin (Valencia, Spain)]. Paleontologia i Evolucio 32-33:99-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41129 M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1995. Nuevo material de estegosaurios en el Cretácico Inferior de Valencia (Aras de Alpuente, localidad de Losilla I) [New material of stegosaurs in the Lower Cretaceous of Valencia (Aras de Alpuente, Losilla I locality)]. Paleontologia i Evolucio 28-29:269-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16836ETE M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, C. Santisteban Bové and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 1999. Estegosaurios (Dinosauria) del Jurásico Superior-Cretácico Inferior de la comarca de Los Serranos (Valencia, España) [Stegosaurs (Dinosauria) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of the Los Serranos area (Valencia, Spain)]. Revista Española de Paleontología, numero extranero Homenaje al Prof. J. Turyols 57-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82562 J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. New stegosaurian (Ornithischia, Thyreophora) remains from Jurassic-Cretaceous transition beds of Valencia province (Southwestern Iberian Range, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):243-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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29301ETE S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56064 G. Piga, A. Santos-Cubedo, A. Brunetti, M. Piccinini, A. Malgosa, E. Napolitano, and S. Enzo. 2011. A multi-technique approach by XRD, XRF, FT-IR to characterize the diagenesis of dinosaur bones from Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 310(1–2):92-107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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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]
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