Alcaine (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Teruel, Spain (41.0° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Kriwet in 1996

• Repository: Institut für Paläontologie, Freien Universität Berlin (IPFUB)

Primary reference: J. Kriwet. 1999. Neoselachier (Pisces, Elasmobranchii) aus der Unterkreide (unteres Barremium) von Galve und Alcaine (Spanien, Provinz Teruel). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:113-142 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91420: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.09.2009, edited by Austin Hendy and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus carerens n. sp. Kriwet 1999 bullhead shark
 Rajiformes -
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Spathobatis halteri Biddle and Landemaine 1988 guitarfish
"Rhinobatos" incidens n. sp. Kriwet 1999 guitarfish
""Rhinobatos" picteti" = Belemnobatis picteti Cappetta 1975 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Celtipristis herreroi n. gen. n. sp. Kriwet 1999 ray
Onchopristis sp. Stromer 1917 ray
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962 ray
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Protoscyliorhinus lamaudi Biddle and Landemaine 1988 cat shark
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium alhaulfi n. sp. Kriwet 1999 nurse shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Protolamna cf. sokolovi Cappetta 1980 mackerel shark
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes -