Figuerola 2, Unit 1 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (41.4° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• at top of 70-m thick Unit 1, lower part of fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray marl

• "a dark grey marly bed above a thick oncolite level"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in the 1990s

Primary reference: J. Kriwet, R. Soler-Gijón, and N. López-Martínez. 2007. Neoselachians from the upper Campanian and lower Maatrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyrenees, northern Spain. Palaeontology 50(5):1051-1071 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76211: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus ibericus
Rhombodus ibericus Kriwet et al. 2007 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Igdabatis cf. indicus
Igdabatis cf. indicus Prasad and Cappetta 1993 eagle ray
FIG2-P-026