Pochancalo-1 (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Poch-1

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.3° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Section B Member (Villanueva de Huerva Formation), Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 129.4 Ma)

• middle part of formation

•Five main facies grouped in three differnt lithological units (A, B, and C) ahve been identified in the Villaneuva de Huerva Formation...Pochancalo-1...at the top of section B (Badiola et al. 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray claystone

• "deposited during an anoxic period in a lacustrine system"; "part of an avulsion deposit (crevasse splay and crevasse channel) within a fluvial domain"
• The fossiliferous level consists of gray lutites deposited in a shallow lacustrine system during anoxic conditions (Badiola et al. 2012)

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: P. Infante, J. I. Canudo, M. Aurell, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, L. M. Sender and S. A. Zamora. 2005. Primeros datos sobre los dinosaurios de Zaragoza (Theropoda, Valanginiense-Hauteriviense, Cretácico Inferior) [First data on the dinosaurs of Zaragoza (Theropoda, Valanginian-Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous)]. In E. Bernáldez, E. Mayoral & A. Guerreiro dos Santos (eds.), XXI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología. Gestión e Investigación de la Paleontología en el Siglo XXI, Sevilla, Spain. 119-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61330: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
  -
Amphibia indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.2 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithidae indet.2 Zhao 1979 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
Allosauroidea indet. Currie and Zhao 1994 allosauroid
MPZ 2005/319
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithidae indet.2 Hirsch 1994 dinosaur
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.2 Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus "sp. 2"3 Mikhailov 1991 titanosaurid
Megaloolithus "sp. 1"3 Mikhailov 1991 titanosaurid
 Pterosauria -
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes sp.3 Hirsch 1985 crocodile eggshell
possibly also "neognath" type eggshells belong here
 Loricata - Bernissartiidae
Bernissartiidae indet.2 Dollo 1883 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet.2 Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudinata - Testudoolithidae
Testudoolithidae indet.2 Hirsch 1996 turtle
MPZ 2007/2219-2221, 2229-2234, 2247-2250
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Albionbaataridae
? Albionbaataridae indet.1 Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom 1994 multituberculate
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Semionotiformes indet.2 Arambourg and Bertin 1958
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet.2 Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Phaceloolithidae
  - Phaceloolithidae
Phaceloolithidae indet.3 Zeng and Zhang 1979