Poca: Early Barremian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004
Mammalia - Dryolestida
1 specimen
MPZ 95/173 (holotype right P5)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Pinheirodontidae
1 specimen
MPA 95/172 (holotype right P5 crown)
Reptilia - Pleurosternidae
Pérez-García et al. 2013
Disarticulated plates
Reptilia
Pérez-García et al. 2013
Fragments of carapace and plastron
Joyce 2017
Reptilia - Atoposauridae
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 1 specimen
MPG POCA CA-9
Reptilia
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 1 specimen
MPG POCA-1 (also listed as Camarasauridae indet.)
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 6 specimens
MPG POCA-1, MPG POCA-2, MPG POCA-5, MPG POCA-12, MPG POCA-13, MPG POCA-14
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 3 specimens
MPG POCA-3, MPG POCA-4, MPG POCA-18
Reptilia - Spinosauridae
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 5 specimens
MPG POCA-6, MPG POCA-7, MPG POCA-14, MPG POCA-15, MPG POCA-18
Reptilia - Heterodontosauridae
Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2007 2 specimens
MPG C7-15, MPG C7-16
Reptilia - Paramacellodidae
Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004
unclassified
Canudo and Ruiz-Omeñaca 2003
"paronychodons"; teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragón County:Teruel
Coordinates: 40.6° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.9° North, 22.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Early Barremian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Camarillas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near top of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:quartzose claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Galve
Database number:89275
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-05-13 14:06:17 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-13 14:06:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
38308. J. I. Canudo and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 1996. Two new mammalian teeth (Multituberculata and Peramura) from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Spain. Cretaceous Research 17:215-228 [R. Benson/R. Benson]

Secondary references:

17647ETE J. I. Canudo and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2003. Los restos directos de dinosaurios teropódos (excluyendo Aves) en España [Direct remains of theropod dinosaurs (excluding Aves) in Spain]. Ciencias de la Tierra 26:347-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62124 W. G. Joyce. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):65-113 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]
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]
46755 A. Pérez-García, T. Scheyer, and X. Murelaga. 2013. The turtles from the uppermost Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Galve (Iberian Range, Spain): anatomical, systematic, biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographical implications. Cretaceous Research 44:64-82 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
55492 J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2002. Los dinosaurios del Jurásico y del Cretácico de la Cordillera Ibérica aragonesa [The Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs of the Aragonese Iberian Cordillera]. Actas del I Encuentro Nacional de Estudios sobre la Cordillera Ibérica (ciencias de la naturaleza) 119-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19754ETE J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, M. Aurell, B. Bádenas, J. L. Barco, G. Cuenca-Bescós, and J. Ipas. 2004. Estado de las investigaciones sobre los vertebrados del Jurásico Superior y Cretácico Interior de Galve (Teruel) [State of the investigations into the vertebrates of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Galve (Teruel)]. Estudios Geológicos 60:179-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32167ETE B. Sánchez-Hernández, M. J. Benton, and D. Naish. 2007. Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249:180-215 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]