Masegosa: Late/Upper Barremian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881
1 individual
vertebrae
    = Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825
Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Castilla-La Mancha County:Cuenca
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.0° North, 8.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:El Collado
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: El Collado Formation outcrops surrounding Vadillos region have been assigned an upper Barremian age based on charophyte biostratigraphy (Vicente and Martín-Closas 2013).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cuenca
Database number:89265
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-05-13 08:43:24 Last modified:2022-03-18 04:38:00
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-13 08:43:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30625.ETE J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

53159 V. Frances and J. L. Sanz. 1989. Restos de dinosaurios del Cretacico Inferior de Buenache de la Sierra (Cuenca) [Dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Buenache de la Sierra (Cuenca)]. In J. L. Sanz (ed.), La Fauna del Pasado en Cuenca. Actas del I Curso de Paleontología 1:125-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29947ETE J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 1998. Sobre las especies de Iguanodon (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) encontradas en el Cretácico inferior de España [On the species of Iguanodon (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) found in the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]. Geogaceta 24:275-278 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55500 J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]