Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.2° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 9.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Enciso Group, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)
• Barremian-Aptian of Torremuña (La Rioja, Spain) (Fig. 1). Enciso Group
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: ICIPLR collection, Igea, Centro de Interpretación Paleontológico de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García, X. Murelaga, J. A. Torres, L. I. Viera, and F.-R. Sáez-Benito. 2010. Tortugas del Cretácico Inferior (Hauteriviense–Barremiense) de La Rioja (Cuenca de Cameros, España) [Turtles from the Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian–Barremian) of La Rioja (Cameros Basin, Spain)]. Geogaceta 48:87-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131493: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 26.07.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Chitracephalus dumonii Dollo 1885 turtle ICIPLR-1, several fragments of plates of a partial carapace
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Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Pholidosaurus sp. Meyer 1841 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar |