Bassa del Mas de Guimera (BMG) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Portell de Morella

Where: Castellón, Spain (40.5° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.6° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, white marl and red claystone

• "grayish-white marls situated below a layer of red clays"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Cerda in 2015

Primary reference: A. Santos-Cubedo, B. Poza, and C. Santisteban. 2018. Un poco de tierra...un mundo Cretácico: el yacimiento BMG de Portell (Barremiense superior, Castellón) [A handful of land...a Cretaceous world: the BMG site from Portell (upper Barremian, Castellón, Spain)]. Geogaceta 63:91-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195209: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet.
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
BMG-J1, tooth
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
BMG-J3, tooth
 Ornithischia -
Styracosterna indet.
Styracosterna indet. Sereno 1986 ornithopod
BMG-J5, J6, teeth
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
BMG-J4, tooth
 Pterosauria - Ornithocheiridae
Ornithocheiridae indet.
Ornithocheiridae indet. pterosaur
BMG-J2, tooth