Also known as El Castellar
Where: Teruel, Spain (40.4° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 8.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Castellar Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• CPT, Museo Aragones de Paleontologia (Fundacion Conjunto Paleontologico de Teruel-Dinopolis), Teruel, Spain
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García, A. Cobos, and R. Royo-Torres. 2017. The oldest evidence of a dortokid turtle (stem Pleurodira) from the uppermost Hauterivian-basal Barremian El Castellar Formation (Teruel, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 187331: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 21.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dortokidae indet. turtle CPT-691 is a partial left xiphiplastron, lacking both its anterior half and the postero-lateral areas
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