Playa de la Vega, Ribadesella (Jurassic of Spain)

Also known as Playa de Vega

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.5° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vega Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• lower half of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, calcareous conglomerate and sandstone

• "channelised flows produced by extreme flooding events associated with heavy rainfall periods."
• "grey bed of polygenic calcareous microconglomerate...passes upward to a cross-bedded sandstone."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Martinez, J. C. García-Ramos, L. Piñuela, J. Lires, M. Luna and D. Veigas. 2000. Vértebras caudales de Sauropoda y Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) del Jurásico superior de Asturias, España [Caudal vertebrae of Sauropoda and Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Upper Jurassic of Asturias, Spain]. In J. B. Diez & A. C. Balbino (ed.), Paleontologia em Portugal: História e Colaborações Espanha-Portugal. I Congresso Ibérico de Paleontología e XVI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología Abstracts:113-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61312: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.1 Oppel 1811 turtle
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
teeth
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
quadrupedal dinosaur footprints
 Avetheropoda -
? Carnosauria indet.2 Huene 1920 carnosaur
tooth, MUJA-1018
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosauridae indet.1 Fitzinger 1843 tetanuran theropod
tooth, MUJA-1226
Megalosauridae indet.1 Fitzinger 1843 tetanuran theropod
caudal vertebra, MUJA-1913
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
caudal vertebra, MUJA-0650