Los Peñucos-La Ballesta (S-2) (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Salas de los Infantes, El Castro, Castrovido

Where: Castilla y León, Spain (42.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pinilla de los Moros Formation (Urbión Group), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• alternately assigned to the Pinilla de los Moros Formation, then Castrillo de la Reina

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Dietl in 1968

• collection made for MA thesis of Ferd Dietl, Univ. Tübingen

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz. 1983. A nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes (province of Burgos, Spain). Géobios 16(5):615-621 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50291: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
cf. Polacanthus sp.1 Fox 1866 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia -
"Camptosaurus" valdensis3 Lydekker 1889 ornithopod
articulated skeleton
Iguanodontia indet.2 ornithopod
GPIT-1802/1-7
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae
"Hypsilophodontidae" indet.6 hypsilophodontid
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.5 Huene 1914 coelurosaur
PS-S-2,16
Maniraptoriformes indet.4 Holtz and Padian 1995 coelurosaur
phalanx, ("Ornitomimosaurio, ?Dromaeosaurido)"