Torremuña (Cretaceous to of Spain)

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

• "white sandy lutites"

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
 Testudines -
Chitracephalus dumonii Dollo 1885 turtle
ICIPLR-1, several fragments of plates of a partial carapace
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Loricata - Pholidosauridae
Pholidosaurus sp. Meyer 1841 crocodilian
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar