Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 3 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as CMP-3, CMP-3b, CMP-3c

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.5° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Arcillas de Morella"

•Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lenticular, brown, gray conglomerate

• "a fluvial channel with marine influence on a transgressive surface"
• "gray and brown heterometric conglomerate distributed in lenticular deposits"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Presencia de Baryonychinae (Theropoda) en el Aptiense inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Formación Arcillas de Morella (Morella, Castellón) [Presence of Baryonychinae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Arcillas de Morella Formation (Morella, Castellón)]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61327: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Frenelopsis sp.1 Schenk 1869
 Coniferales - Brachyphyllaceae
Brachyoxylon sp.1 Hollick and Jeffrey 1909
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.5 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Polacanthus sp.2 Fox 1866 ankylosaur
CMP-3/141, 588, 747–749, 853, 935, 970, 971; CMP-3b/7, 8
 Ornithischia -
Mantellisaurus sp.3 Paul 2007 ornithopod
Iguanodon sp.4 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae
"Hypsilophodontidae" indet.3 hypsilophodontid
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Spinosauridae indet.1 Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
 Pterosauria -
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
aff. Theriosuchus sp.6 Owen 1878 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Loricata -
Bernissartia sp.1 Dollo 1883 crocodilian
? Thalattosuchia indet.1 marine crocodile
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.4 Oppel 1811 turtle
3 species
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Helochelydra sp.4 Nopcsa 1928 turtle
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Semionotiformes indet.1 Arambourg and Bertin 1958
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.4 Agassiz 1832 gar
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet.1 Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
 Ichnofossils -
Teredolites sp.1 Leymerie 1842