Suterranya-1 (gypsum bed) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Suterraña

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Posa Formation (Tremp Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• G. aegyptiacus zone; c. 10 m above the contact of the Tremp Formation with the Aren Sandstone (Unit 1)

•La Posa Fm. = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous, gray marl

• "a grey marl rich in gypsum crystals...The gypsiferous bed intercalates with coal-bearing grey marls, limestones and shell beds (mainly consisting of remains of the snail Melanoides and the clam Cyrena)."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in the 1990s

Primary reference: J. J. Moratalla. 1998. Spanish dinosaur eggs. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 26-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36731: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus trempii" = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus trempii" = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Richardoestesia sp.2 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis indicus1 Prasad and Cappetta 1993 eagle ray
 Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus ibericus1 Kriwet et al. 2007 stingray