Foia Redona locality (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Font de la Carrasca quarry

Where: Murcia, Spain (38.6° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gansserina gansseri foram zone, Raspay Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• probably upper part of Gansserina gansseri Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; gray marl and green, yellow marl

• "open-marine environment with significant terrigenous content, located between the outer shelf and the upper bathyal zone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Bardet, J. F. Baeza Carratalá, V. Díez Díaz, A. Carbonell, M. García and V. Giner. 2013. First occurrence of Mosasauridae (Squamata) in the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) of Alicante (Valencia Community, Eastern Spain). Estudios Geológicos 69(1):97-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152895: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys sp.
Echinocorys sp. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Cyclaster sp.
Cyclaster sp. Cotteau 1856 heart urchin
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Prognathodon sp.
Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889 mosasaur
CVAI 00141