PBDB Collection

Uña (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cuenca, Spain (40.2° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Huérguina Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• also called the "Uña Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; limestone and lignite

• "carbonates and clastic rocks with interbedded coals", with fossils from "a lignite intercalated in limestones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Krebs & Henkel in 1965-

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Krebs. 1995. The Barremian vertebrate locality Uña (province of Cuenca) materials for a comparison with Las Hoyas. II International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones, Extended Abstracts. Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 95-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61319: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006, edited by Roger Benson, Terri Cleary and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Plantae indet. Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 coalified wood
Actinopteri
Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae	Coelodus "sp. 1"⁴, Coelodus "sp. 2"⁴, Anomoeodus nursalli n. sp.⁴, "Microdon sp." = Polypsephis⁵ Coelodus "sp. 1"⁴ Haeckel IPFUB Uña Pyc 15 Coelodus "sp. 2"⁴ Haeckel IPFUB Uña Pyc 10 Anomoeodus nursalli n. sp.⁴ Kriwet 1999 IPFUB Uña Pyc 1–9, 11–14, 16–20 "Microdon sp." = Polypsephis⁵ Hay 1899
Amphibia
Salientia -	Anura indet., Wealdenbatrachus jucarensis n. gen. n. sp. Anura indet. frog ilium Wealdenbatrachus jucarensis n. gen. n. sp. Fey 1988 frog IPFUB 101/U70 V - holotype
Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae	Albanerpeton sp.¹ Albanerpeton sp.¹ Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
Reptilia
Squamata -	Squamata indet.⁷ Squamata indet.⁷ squamates
Serpentes -	Serpentes indet.⁶ Serpentes indet.⁶ snake IPFUB Una 70/L.76, 63 (two vertebrae)
Squamata -	Lacertilia indet.⁹, ? Lacertilia indet.⁹ Lacertilia indet.⁹ Owen 1842 lizard IPFUB Una L. 893, premaxilla; IPFUB Una L. 513, coronoid; IPFUB Una L. 94/1, isolated teeth; IPFUB Una L. 558, right pelvic girdle; IPFUB Una L. 534, sacral vertebra; IPFUB Una L. 48, thoracic vertebra ? Lacertilia indet.⁹ Owen 1842 lizard IPFUB Una L. 94/2, single tooth; IPFUB Una L. 177, skull roof bones; IPFUB Una L. 884, skull roof bones; IPFUB Una L. 43, interclavicle
Squamata - Paramacellodidae	Paramacellodus sinuosus n. sp.⁹, Becklesius sp.⁹, Becklesius cataphractus n. sp.⁹ Paramacellodus sinuosus n. sp.⁹ Richter 1994 squamates IPFUB Una L. 90 (holotype), right dentary Becklesius sp.⁹ Estes 1983 squamates IPFUB Una L. 7, left dentary different in morphology from B. cataphractus and B. hoffstetteri Becklesius cataphractus n. sp.⁹ Richter 1994 squamates IPFUB Una L. 17a-17z (holotype), cranial and postcranial elements; IPFUB Una L. 465, L. 20b, L. 93, L. 96 and L. 531, five dentaries; IPFUB Una L. 595c, isolated tooth, IPFUB Una L. 50, maxilla; IPFUB Una L. 595b, 3 maxillary teeth, IPFUB Una L. 1, L. 235, two jugals, IPFUB Una L. 153, frontal bone, IPFUB Una L. 117, L. 468, parietals; IPFUB Una L. 2, pterygoid; IPFUB Una L. 304, scapulocoracoid; IPFUB Una L. 11a, interclavicle; IPFUB Una L. 304, ilium; plus unmentioned other bones and osteoderms
Squamata - Teiidae	Meyasaurus unaensis n. sp.⁸ Meyasaurus unaensis n. sp.⁸ Richter 1994 squamates
Squamata -	Cuencasaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Cuencasaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp.⁹ Richter 1994 squamates IPFUB Una L. 141 (holotype), fragment of ?dentary with 5 teeth
Testudines -	cf. Chelydroidea indet. cf. Chelydroidea indet. turtle
Testudines - Pelomedusidae	Pelomedusidae indet. Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
Testudinata - Pleurosternidae	Pleurosternidae indet. Pleurosternidae indet. Cope 1868 turtle
Loricata -	Bernissartia sp. Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883 crocodilian
Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae	Unasuchus reginae n. gen. n. sp. Unasuchus reginae n. gen. n. sp. Brinkmann 1992 crocodilian
Loricata - Atoposauridae	"Theriosuchus ibericus n. sp." = Sabresuchus ibericus "Theriosuchus ibericus n. sp." = Sabresuchus ibericus Brinkman 1992 crocodilian
Loricata -	Lisboasaurus sp.¹⁰ Lisboasaurus sp.¹⁰ Seiffert 1975 crocodilian IPFUB Uña 70 I-N 2-3
Pterosauria -	Pterosauria indet. Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
Theropoda -	cf. Paronychodon sp.⁷ cf. Paronychodon sp.⁷ Cope 1876 maniraptoran
Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae	Velociraptorinae indet.⁷, Dromaeosaurinae indet.⁷, cf. Richardoestesia sp.⁷ Velociraptorinae indet.⁷ Barsbold 1983 maniraptoran Dromaeosaurinae indet.⁷ Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran cf. Richardoestesia sp.⁷ Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
Ornithischia -	Euornithopoda indet.⁷ Euornithopoda indet.⁷ Sereno 1986 ornithopod IPFUB Uña Or 1-10
Saurischia -	Sauropoda indet.⁷ Sauropoda indet.⁷ sauropod IPFUB Uña Sd 1
Mammalia
Pantotheria -	Pantotheria sp.⁵ Pantotheria sp.⁵ mammal a molar tooth
Dryolestida -	Crusafontia cuencana n. gen. n. sp.³ Crusafontia cuencana n. gen. n. sp.³ Henkel and Krebs 1969 mammal "Uña 1" (holotype) and "Uña 2" (mandibles)
Multituberculata - Paulchoffatiidae	Galveodon nannothus² Galveodon nannothus² Hahn and Hahn 1992 multituberculate "Uña 3" (i2) and CR(m)H-7 (p?3/4)
Multituberculata - Eobaataridae	Eobaatar hispanicus Eobaatar hispanicus Hahn and Hahn 1992 multituberculate "Uña 6" (p4); "Uña 4" (p1-2); "Uña 5" (p1-2); "Uña 7" (m1) (paratypes)
Gastropoda
-	Gastropoda indet. Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Ostracoda
Podocopida - Cyprididae	Cypridea sp., Mantelliana sp. Cypridea sp. Bosquet 1852 ostracod Mantelliana sp. Anderson 1966 ostracod

¹Gardner and Böhme 2008; ²Hahn and Hahn 1992; ³Henkel and Krebs 1969; ⁴Kriwet 1999; ⁵Kuhne and Crusafont-Pairo 1968; ⁶Rage and Richter 1994; ⁷Rauhut 2002; ⁸Richter 1994; ⁹Richter 1994; ¹⁰Schwarz and Fechner 2008