Cerrito de Olmo I, Aldea: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
collected by J. Albir

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus armatus (Marsh 1877)
26 specimens
MCNV CO-1 to 7, 9-10, 23-24
    = Dacentrurus sp. Lucas 1902
Maidment et al. 2008
Reptilia
Ornithopoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2009 3 specimens
MCNV CO-6, 8, 26 (cervical & 2 caudals)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Valencia County:Alpuente
Coordinates: 39.9° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.0° North, 8.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1059 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Villar del Arzobispo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned to the "Purbeck facies", also referred to "Weald" and to "Formación arenas y arcillas de El Collado". Later referred to the Villar del Arzobispo Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray carbonaceous marls and clays
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: "marshy environment in the context of a fluvial floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Albir
Collection method comments: discovered by Juan Pablo Albir
Metadata
Also known as:La Almeza, Cerrito del Olmo
Database number:59089
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-13 06:47:03 Last modified:2022-09-09 13:57:44
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-13 06:47:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
41127. M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, and C. Santisteban-Bové. 1995. Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) del Cretácico Inferior de Los Serranos (Valencia, España) [Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Los Serranos (Valencia, Spain)]. Revista Española de Paleontología 10(2):273-283 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17673ETE J. L. Barco. 2005. Estudio y comparación del esqueleto axial de un saurópodo (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) procedente de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (Titónico-Berriasiense) de Galve, Teruel [Study and comparison of the axial skeleton of a sauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Galve, Teruel]. Treballs del Museu de Geología de Barcelona 13:15-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16836ETE M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, C. Santisteban Bové and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 1999. Estegosaurios (Dinosauria) del Jurásico Superior-Cretácico Inferior de la comarca de Los Serranos (Valencia, España) [Stegosaurs (Dinosauria) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of the Los Serranos area (Valencia, Spain)]. Revista Española de Paleontología, numero extranero Homenaje al Prof. J. Turyols 57-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82562 J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. New stegosaurian (Ornithischia, Thyreophora) remains from Jurassic-Cretaceous transition beds of Valencia province (Southwestern Iberian Range, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):243-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55329 R. Gaete, J. I. Canudo, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2011. Ornithischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 169-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55204 A. Galobart, A. Santos-Cubedo, M. Suñer and J. I. Canudo. 2011. Paleontological discoveries and studies. In À. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29301ETE S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82564 X. Pereda Suberbiola, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and J. Company. 2009. Primera descripción de restos esqueléticos de dinosaurio ornitópodo en la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (tránsito Jurásico-Cretácico): yacimiento de Cerrito del Olmo (Alpuente, Valencia) [First description of ornithopod dinosaur skeletal remains from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Jurassic-Cretaceous transition): Cerrito del Olmo locality (Alpuente, Valencia)]. Geogaceta 47:13-16 [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]