Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 3: Late/Upper Barremian, Spain
collected 2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida
- Cheirolepidiaceae
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Frenelopsis sp.
Schenk 1869
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Coniferales
- Brachyphyllaceae
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Brachyoxylon sp.
Hollick and Jeffrey 1909
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Reptilia
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Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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Canudo et al. 2008 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
= Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Gasulla et al. 2008 | |||||||||
CMP-3/648, 649, 746 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Polacanthus sp.
Fox 1866
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Canudo et al. 2004 | 11 specimens | ||||||||
CMP-3/141, 588, 747–749, 853, 935, 970, 971; CMP-3b/7, 8 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Mantellisaurus sp.
Paul 2007
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
= Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hypsilophodontidae
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Hypsilophodontidae indet.
Dollo 1882
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
= "Hypsilophodontidae" indet.
Dollo 1882
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Spinosauridae
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Baryonychinae indet.
(Charig and Milner 1986)
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Carrano et al. 2012 | 19 specimens | ||||||||
= Spinosauridae indet.
Stromer 1915
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
CMP3-182, 196, 360, 369, 370, 532, 538, 758-760, 790, 791, 896, 897, 1012, 3b/9, 3b/42, 3b/188, 3b/211 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
= cf. Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
"close to Theriosuchus" | ||||||||||
= aff. Theriosuchus sp.
Owen 1878
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Tennant et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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= Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Bernissartia sp.
Dollo 1883
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
? Thalattosuchia indet.
Fraas 1901
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
3 species | ||||||||||
Helochelydra sp.
Nopcsa 1928
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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= Semionotiformes indet.
Arambourg and Bertin 1958
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Gasulla et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Selachii indet.
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= Hybodontidae indet.
Agassiz 1834
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Teredolites sp.
Leymerie 1842
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Canudo et al. 2008 | |||||||||
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 | ||||
Altitude: | 73 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 | ||||
Local section: | La Parreta | Local bed: | 63 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
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: | lenticular,brown,gray conglomerate |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "gray and brown heterometric conglomerate distributed in lenticular deposits" | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Geology comments: "a fluvial channel with marine influence on a transgressive surface" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2006 |
Metadata
Also known as: | CMP-3, CMP-3b, CMP-3c | ||
Database number: | 61327 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-06-05 08:55:56 | Last modified: | 2022-04-13 11:08:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-05 08:55:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17655. | ETE | J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Presencia de Baryonychinae (Theropoda) en el Aptiense inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Formación Arcillas de Morella (Morella, Castellón) [Presence of Baryonychinae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Arcillas de Morella Formation (Morella, Castellón)]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
29955 | ETE | J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, D. Gömez-Fernández, F. Ortega, J. L. Sanz and P. Yagüe. 2008. Primer evidencia de dientes aislados atribuidos a Spinosauridae (Theropoda) en al Aptiano inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Europa: Formación Arcillas se Morella (España) [First evidence of isolated teeth attributed to Spinosauridae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe: Arcillas Formation of Morella (Spain)]. Ameghiniana 45(4):649-662 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17692 | ETE | J. I. Canudo, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2004. Los primeros dientes de anquilosaurio (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) descritos en el Cretácico Inferior de España [The first ankylosaurian teeth (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) described from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]. Revista Española de Paleontología 19(1):33-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
41617 | M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
55329 | R. Gaete, J. I. Canudo, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2011. Ornithischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 169-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
81325 | J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, F. Ortega and J. L. Sanz. 2013. A reappraisal of the spinosaurid baryonychines from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (lower Aptian) of Morella, Spain. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor & P. Huerta (ed.), VI Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 76-77 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] | |
41033 | J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega, X. Pereda Suberbiola, F. Escaso, and J. L. Sanz. 2011. Elementos de la armadura dérmica del dinosaurio anquilosaurio Polacanthus Owen, 1865, en el Cretácico Inferior de Morella (Castellón, España) [Dermal armor elements of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Polacanthus Owen, 1865, in the Lower Cretaceous of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Ameghiniana 48(4):508-519 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
30813 | ETE | J. M. Gasulla, J. L. Sanz, F. Escaso and P. Yagüe. 2008. Elementos de la cintura pélvica de dinosaurios saurópodos Titanosauriformes del Cretácico Inferior (Aptiense inferior) de Morella (Castellón) [Pelvic girdle elements of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Aptian) of Morella (Castellón)]. In J I Ruiz-Omeñaca, L Piñuela and J C García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 129-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
75801 | E. Malafaia, J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, I. Narvaéz, and F. Ortega. 2020. An update of the spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) fossil record from the Lower Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula: distribution, diversity, and evolutionary history. Journal of Iberian Geology 46:431-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] | |
59838 | J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
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] |