Cuesta Corrales 2, Galve: Early/Lower Barremian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Dryolestida
Crusafontia amoae n. sp. Cuenca-Bescos et al. 2011
Cuenca-Bescos et al. 2011 2 specimens
Two upper molars: the holotype [MPZ CC2−1], one upper left molar, MPZ CC2−1, probably M4 or M5
Reptilia - Spheroolithidae
Macroolithus turolensis n. sp. Amo Sanjuán et al. 2000
Amo Sanjuán et al. 2000 1482 specimens
recombined as Guegoolithus turolensis
MPZ 2013/410 to MPZ 2013/867
Reptilia - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithidae indet. Zhao 1975
414 specimens
    = Elongatoolithus sp. Zhao 1975
Cuenca-Bescós et al. 1999
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Amo Sanjuán et al. 2000
eggshells
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragón County:Teruel
Coordinates: 40.7° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.7° North, 9.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1168 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Barremian
Age range of interval:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:El Castellar
Local section:Galve Local bed:300 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near top of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "lacustrine-plaustrine environment"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Teruel, Cuesta de los Corrales 2, CC 2
Database number:61409
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-06-09 06:57:27 Last modified:2019-11-15 12:30:41
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-09 06:57:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17695.ETE O. Amo, J. I. Cuenca-Bescos, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 1999. First record of Elongatoolithidae eggshell fragments (Dinosauria) from Cuesta Corrales 2 (Lower Barremian, Teruel, Spain). First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Isona i Conda Dellà, Spain 7-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17693ETE O. Amo Sanjuán, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2000. First record of elongatoolithid eggshells from the lower Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe (Cuesta Corrales 2, Galve Basin, Teruel, Spain). First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Isona i Conda Dellà, Spain, Extended Abstracts 7-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54616 G. Cuenca-Bescós, O. Amo, J. L. Barco, J. I. Canudo, R. Royo-Torres and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1999. Dinosaurios de Aragón [Dinosaurs of Aragon]. Zubía 17:235-257 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42349 G. Cuenca-Bescos, A. Badiola, J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasca, and M. Moreno-Azanza. 2011. New dryolestidan mammal from the Hauterivian–Barremian transition of the Iberian Peninsula. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(2):257-267 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
70941 M. Moreno-Azanza, J. I. Canudo, and J. M. Gasca. 2014. Spheroolithid eggshells in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. Implications for eggshell evolution in ornithischian dinosaurs. Cretaceous Research 51(1):75-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30814ETE M. Moreno-Azanza, J. M. Gasca, and J. I. Canudo. 2008. Macroolithus turolensis como fósil guia para el Hauteriviense superior-Barremiense basal de Teruel [Macroolithus turolensis as an index fossil for the upper Hauterivian–basal Barremian of Teruel]. In J I Ruiz-Omeñaca, L Piñuela and J C García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 43-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55500 J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]