Armuña, Segovia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.1° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vegas de Matute Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; white, yellow, argillaceous, sandy siliciclastic sediments

• "a detrital unit...deltaic with freshwater influences."
• "the fossiliferous section is composed of gravel, sand and clays of white and yellowish colors with cross-stratification"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in the 1980s

• discovered during cartographic mapping for the National Geological Map of Spain (MAGNA)

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48861: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Lithostrotia indet.2 Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod
Eusauropoda indet.2 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
UPUAM 14054 and 14055
Neosauropoda indet.2 Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
UPUAM 14057
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
cf. Rhabdodon sp.2 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3 theropod
UPUAM 14066, 14067 and 14069
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
cf. Arcovenator sp.2 Tortosa et al. 2014 ceratosaur
UPUAM 14044-14049
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.2 crocodilian
Eusuchia indet.2 crocodilian
UPUAM 502
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Solemys sp.1 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 turtle
STUS 12161, STUS 14588-14592, UPUAM 14005-14008
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Dortoka vasconica2 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 turtle
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
"Iberoccitanemys convenarum" = Iberoccitanemys atlanticum2
"Iberoccitanemys convenarum" = Iberoccitanemys atlanticum2 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 sideneck turtle
STUS 12111, STUS 12113-12115, STUS 12117-12119, STUS 14599-14608, STUS 14616, UPUAM 14012-14036
 Squamata -
Anguimorpha indet.2 Fürbringer 1900 squamates
UPUAM 14056
Mosasauroidea indet.2 squamates
STUS 14567
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.2 Cuvier 1825 gar