Elías site: Late Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 2008

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Arenysuchus gascabadiolorum n. gen., n. sp. Puértolas et al. 2011
ELI-1 - holotype (partial skull)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragón County:Huesca
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 0.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 0.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tremp Formation:Conques
Local section:Areny Local bed:55 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower red unit (Unit 2), higher up in the sequence than the Blasi 1-3 sites; "lower Red Garumnian", Chron C29r
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: very coarse-grained ochre sandstones of polymictic composition and carbonate cement
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2008
Metadata
Also known as:Elias
Database number:111895
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano
Created:2011-06-30 00:55:02 Last modified:2022-04-11 14:07:58
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-30 00:55:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36564. E. Puértolas, J. I. Canudo, and P. Cruzado-Caballero. 2011. A new crocodylian from the late Maastrichtian of Spain: Implications for the initial radiation of crocodyloids. PLoS One 6(6):e20011:1-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

81262 M. Pérez-Pueyo, P. Cruzado-Caballero, M. Moreno-Azanza, B. Vila, D. Castanera, J. M. Gasca, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas, and J. I. Canudo. 2021. The tetrapod fossil record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Ibero-Armorican Island: an integrative review based on the outcrops of the western Tremp Syncline (Aragón, Huesca Province, NE Spain). Geosciences 11:162:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]