Also known as Basturs-1, Orcau, Barranco de Bastús, Basturs-2, Point 8, Bastus
Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Arén Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• The fossil bed is a paleosol that developed on top of the Aren Sandstone Formation. It is overlain by the Tremp Formation. Originally assigned to "base of the Danian."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; paleosol/pedogenic, medium-grained, coarse, hematitic, intraclastic, red, calcareous sandstone and fine-grained, medium, gray, yellow sandstone
•Rosell: "reddish gray sandstones, with calcareous cement, passing locally to micro-clays."
•facies F5B: "Claystones and siltstones / Grey / Laminated / Abundant plant remains and sulphide accumulations, limited lateral continuity"
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Kühne, Lapparent, Bézier, Glachant, Sanz in 1955, 1958
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,
• 38 egg clutches in the outcrop; discovered September 1958 by A. Lapparent accompanied by C. Bézier and N. Glachant
Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and E. Aguirre. 1956. Algunos yacimientos de Dinosaurios en el Cretácico Superior de la Cuenca de Tremp [Some dinosaur localities in the Upper Cretaceous of the Termp Basin]. Estudios Geológicos 12(31/32):377-382 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55390: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 13.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Microcodium sp.3 Gluck 1912 | |
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"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis5
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