Santa Maria de Meya, main quarry: Early/Lower Barremian, Spain
collected by J.E. Gomez Pallerola
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Trichoptera
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? Trichoptera indet.
Kirby 1815
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Gomez Pallerola 1986 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Insecta
- Neuroptera
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Neuroptera indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Raphidioptera
- Mesoraphidiidae
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Proraphidia sp.
Martynova 1947
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Gomez Pallerola 1986 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Proraphidia gomezi n. sp.
Jepson and Jarzembowski 2008
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Jepson and Jarzembowski 2008 | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
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Brevispinnatus paludis
Gomez Pallerola 1979
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Palaeontinidae
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Montsecocossus sirerae n. gen., n. sp.
Gomez Pallerola 1984
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Gomez Pallerola 1984 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Palaeontina vidali
Meunier 1902
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| One in Gomez Pallerola 1979, additional specimens in Gomez Pallerola, 1984 (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Ilerdocossus villaltai n. gen., n. sp.
Gomez Pallerola 1984
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Gomez Pallerola 1984 | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Mastotermitidae
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cf. Valditermes sp.
Jarzembowski 1981
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Gomez Pallerola 1986 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Insecta
- Orthoptera
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Orthoptera indet.
Olivier 1789
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Gomez Pallerola 1986 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Montsechobatrachus gaudryi
(Vidal 1902)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Anura | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Lonchidiidae
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Priscavolucris monteschi
Gomez Pallerola 1979
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Lonchidion monteschi | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Spain |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 0.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.3° North, 11.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | La Pedrera de Rúbies |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination lithified "limestone" | ||
| Lithology description: "rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones" | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine - large | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: "distal areas of a large, shallow... coastal lake" | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression,soft parts |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | J.E. Gomez Pallerola |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (Lleida, Spain) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | La Pedrera de Meià, La Pedrera de Rubies | ||
| Database number: | 152684 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham, J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-11-29 23:18:41 | Last modified: | 2014-08-05 14:48:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-29 23:18:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49222. | J. E. Gomez Pallerola. 1979. Un ave y otras especies fósiles nuevas de la biofacies de Santa María de Meyá (Lérida). Boletín Geológico y Minero 90:333-346 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 45737 | J. E. Gomez Pallerola. 1984. Nuevos Paleontínidos del yacimiento Infracretácico de la "Pedrera de Meiá" (Lérida). Boletín Geológico y Minero 95(4):301-309 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] | |
| 49225 | J. E. Gomez Pallerola. 1986. Nuevos insectos fosíles de las calizas litográficas del Cretácico Inferior del Montsec (Lérida). Boletín Geológico y Minero 97(6):717-736 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 40700 | J. E. Jepson and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2008. Two new species of snakefly (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition. Alavesia 2:193-201 [J. Jepson/J. Jepson] |