Los Caños, Soria (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.8° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "Wealden"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Sáenz García, J. M. Catalá & J. Royo y Goméz in 1925

Primary reference: J. Royo y Goméz. 1926. [Hallazgo de restos de vertebrados de facies weáldica] [Discovery of vertebrate remains in the Wealden facies]. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 26:317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 64406: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

 Charales - Characeae
Characeae indet. Agardh 1824
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
? Paludina sp. Férussac 1812 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cyrenidae
? Cyrena sp. Lamarck clam
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
Cypris sp. Müller 1776 ostracod
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Dinosauria -
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes, "Lepidotus mantelli" = Scheenstia mantelli
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes Agassiz 1832 gar
"Lepidotus mantelli" = Scheenstia mantelli Agassiz 1833 gar