PBDB Collection

Suterranya mine (lignite bed): Early Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by J. Montané, A. Lapparent, E. Aguirre & J. Rosell 1940, 1956

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes

	Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880	Lapparent and Aguirre 1956
Reptilia - Testudines

	cf. Pancryptodira indet. Joyce et al. 2004	Martín Jiménez et al. 2017	1 specimen
	MNCN 59309
Reptilia - Testudines - Bothremydidae

	Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)	Lapparent and Aguirre 1956	4 specimens
	= Bothremydidae indet. Baur 1891	Martín Jiménez et al. 2017
	MNCN 59308a-c, 59315, 59316, 59708
Reptilia - Lacertilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Lapparent and Aguirre 1956
Reptilia

	cf. Allodaposuchidae indet. Narváez et al. 2015	Martín Jiménez et al. 2017	1 specimen
	MNCN 59307 (teeth)
	= Allodaposuchus cf. subjuniperus Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2013	Rocchi and Vila 2024
	MCD-13433 (the teeth represented by MNCN 59307 "probably belong to the same individual")

	Titanosaurus cf. indicus Lydekker 1877		1 specimen
	MNCN 59325
	= Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997	Martín Jiménez et al. 2017
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Rhabdodon priscum (Matheron 1869)		1 specimen
	MNCN 59304
	= Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890	Martín Jiménez et al. 2017
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cyrenidae

	Cyrena sp. Lamarck	Moratalla 1998
Gastropoda - Thiaridae

	Melanoides sp. Olivier 1804	Moratalla 1998
see common names

Country:	Spain	State/province:	Cataluña	County:	Lleida
Coordinates:	42.2° North, 1.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	30.2° North, 10.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	494 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.2 - 66 m.y. ago

Geological group:	Tremp	Formation:	La Posa
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 1 La Posa Fm. = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019)

Primary lithology:	gray carbonaceous marl
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "a grey marl rich in gypsum crystals...The gypsiferous bed intercalates with coal-bearing grey marls, limestones and shell beds (mainly consisting of remains of the snail Melanoides and the clam Cyrena)."
Environment:	terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:	regressive

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	dispersed
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	J. Montané, A. Lapparent, E. Aguirre & J. Rosell	Collection dates:	1940, 1956

Also known as:	Suterrana, Tremp, Point 4, Mina de lignit; Suterranya-Mina de lignit
Database number:	141185
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:	P. Mannion	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2013-03-21 08:45:11	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2013-03-21 08:45:11
Creative Commons license:	CC0

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