El Inglés Quarry (BUE4): Late/Upper Barremian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ocloedus sp.
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
    = Clavatoraxis sp.
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Mammaliaformes indet. Rowe 1988
Buscalioni et al. 2008 1 specimen
BUE4-Ma#1
Reptilia
Pleurosternoidea indet. (Hay 1930)
Buscalioni et al. 2008 10 specimens
BUE4-Ch#1-10
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Buscalioni et al. 2008 87 specimens
synonym of Testudines
eggshells; BUE4-Et
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
10 specimens
BUE4-Lep#1-10
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
3 specimens
eggshells, teeth, BUE4-Th#1-3
Reptilia
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
1 specimen
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Reptilia - Pterosauria
? Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Buscalioni et al. 2008 1 specimen
BUE4-PT#1
Reptilia - Crocodylomorpha
? Crocodylomorpha indet. (Hay 1930)
Buscalioni et al. 2008 40 specimens
BUE4-NT4#1-40
Reptilia
Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Buscalioni et al. 2008 1 specimen
BUE4-NT2#25
    = aff. Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Tennant et al. 2016
Reptilia - Bernissartiidae
Bernissartidae indet. Dollo 1883
Buscalioni et al. 2008 41 specimens
corrected as Bernissartiidae
BUE4-NT3#1-41
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
145 specimens
eggshells; BUE4-Ec
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
cf. Goniopholis gracilidens (Owen 1879)
Buscalioni et al. 2008 60 specimens
original and current combination Nannosuchus gracilidens
BUE4-NT1#1-60
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982
3 specimens
BUE4-A#18, #21, #39
    = cf. Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
2 specimens
BUE$-A#15, #25
Actinopteri
Neopterygii indet. Regan 1923
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Amiopsinae indet. Grande and Bemis 1998
Buscalioni et al. 2008 3 specimens
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Caturus sp. Agassiz 1834
Actinopteri
Pycnodontoidea indet.
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Buscalioni et al. 2008
cf. Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes
Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958
    = cf. Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958
Buscalioni et al. 2008
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
Buscalioni et al. 2008 1 specimen
Actinopteri - Elopiformes
Elopoidei indet.
Buscalioni et al. 2008 2 specimens
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Globator maillardii
Buscalioni et al. 2008
G. m. trochiliscoides
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
    = Cypridea spp.
Buscalioni et al. 2008
4 species
Charales - Clavatoraceae
Atopochara trivolvis Peck 1938
Buscalioni et al. 2008
A. t. triquetra
Charales
Clavator harrisii
Buscalioni et al. 2008
C. h. reyii
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cuenca
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.6° North, 8.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1265 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:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Huérguina
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: within the Rambla de Las Cruces I Sequence
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "grey to ochre (due to oxidation) slabby marly siltstones. These were sometimes slightly sandy..."
Environment:pond
Geology comments: pond on an alluvial plain within a seasonal wetland system; "a small stagnant pond"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Size sorting:well
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Buenache de la Sierra
Database number:61889
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-06 13:23:43 Last modified:2009-01-28 16:12:58
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-06 13:23:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17880.ETE A. D. Buscalioni and M. Frenegal-Martinez. 2006. Archosaurian size bias in Jurassic and Cretaceous freshwater ecosystems. 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings Volume 9-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29084ETE A. D. Buscalioni, M. A. Fregenal, A. Bravo, F. J. Poyato-Ariza, B. Sanchíz, A. M. Báez, O. Cambra Moo, C. Martín Closas, S. E. Evans and J. Marugán Lobón. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of Buenache de la Sierra (upper Barremian of Serranía de Cuenca, Spain) with insights into its taphonomy and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research 29:671-710 [M. Carrano/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]