PBDB Collection

La Solana, Carlet: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by E. Roca 1980, 1995-1996

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Dughiella praebacillaris	Szentesi and Company 2017
Osteichthyes

	Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880	Company et al. 1998
	"fish scales"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825	Szentesi and Company 2017
	MGUPV-0020
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Szentesi and Company 2017
	MGUPV-0014-0019
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Palaeobatrachidae

	Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865	Szentesi and Company 2017
	MGUPV-0009, 0012, 0013
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Alytidae

	Discoglossinae indet. Günther 1859	Szentesi and Company 2017
	MGUPV-0010 and 0011
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae

	Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Company et al. 1998
	= Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982	Szentesi and Company 2017
	MGUPV-0007 and 0008
Reptilia - Azhdarchidae

	Azhdarchidae indet. Nessov 1984	Company Rodríguez et al. 1998	9 specimens
	MGUV 2194, 2195, 2239, 2271, 3207, 3209, 3210, MPV TT48, TT49, fragmentary cervical vertebrae and limb bones
Reptilia

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869		47 specimens
	MGUV 2190, 2200-2204, 2210, 2232, 2233; MPV 181, 182, 184, 186; IPS 13092
	= Euhadrosauria indet. Weishampel et al. 1993	Dalla Vecchia 2006
	= Hadrosauroidea indet. Huene 1954	Dalla Vecchia 2009
Reptilia - Eusuchia

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Company et al. 1998
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Szentesi and Company 2017
Reptilia

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Company et al. 1998
	= Solemys sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Szentesi and Company 2017
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

	Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)	Szentesi and Company 2017
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae

	Phyllodontidae indet. Sauvage 1875	Szentesi and Company 2017
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae

	Osteoglossidae indet. Bonaparte 1832	Szentesi and Company 2017
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. (Cuvier 1825)	Szentesi and Company 2017
Ostracoda

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Company et al. 1998
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Company et al. 1998
Bivalvia

	Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Company et al. 1998
unclassified

	Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866	Company et al. 1998
	"carbonaceous plant remains" and "plant microfossils"
Charales - Characea

	Platychara compressa (Knowlton 1888)	Szentesi and Company 2017

	Platychara cf. compressa (Knowlton 1888)	Szentesi and Company 2017

	Amblyochara sp. Grambast 1962	Szentesi and Company 2017

	Peckichara cf. toscarensis	Szentesi and Company 2017

	Peckichara llobregatensis	Szentesi and Company 2017

	Microchara hystrix Grambast 1959	Szentesi and Company 2017
see common names

Geography

Country:	Spain	State/province:	Valencia	County:	Tous
Coordinates:	39.2° North, 0.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	31.4° North, 1.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Altitude:	60 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed unit overlying Sierra de Perenchiza Fm.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	fine sandstone
Secondary lithology:	silty marl
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "continental beds arranged in a sequence of fine-grained sandstones, silty marls and dark clays."
Environment:	"floodplain"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Disassociated major elements:	some
Fragmentation:	occasional

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:	E. Roca	Collection dates:	1980s, 1995-1996

Metadata

Also known as:	Tous
Database number:	47035
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-02-01 11:27:26	Last modified:	2023-01-10 15:10:50
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-02-01 11:27:26
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

54836.

M. L. Casanovas Cladellas. 1992. Novedades en el registro fósil de dinosaurios del levante español [Developments in the fossil record of dinosaurs from the Spanish Levant]. Zubía 10:139-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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17678	ETE	J. Company, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 1999. A long-necked pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:319-333 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42686		J. Company and Z. Szentesi. 2012. Amphibians from the Late Cretaceous Sierra Perenchiza Formation of the Chera Basin, Valencia Province, Spain. Cretaceous Research 37:240-245 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
31110		J. Company, D. M. Unwin, X. Pereda-Suberbiola and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2001. A giant azhdarchid pterosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain - the largest flying creature ever?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:41A-42A [R. Butler/R. Butler]
12506	ETE	J. E. Company, A. Galobart, and R. Gaete. 1998. First data on the hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain. Oryctos 1:121-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50422		J. Company Rodríguez, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1998. An azhdarchid pterosaur (Reptilia, Archosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain. In J. W. M. Jagt, P. H. Lambers, E. W. A. Mulder & A. Schulp (eds.), Third European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology, Programme and Abstracts 21-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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41120		F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosauroids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An update. Natura Nascosta 39:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054		F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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81262		M. Pérez-Pueyo, P. Cruzado-Caballero, M. Moreno-Azanza, B. Vila, D. Castanera, J. M. Gasca, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas, and J. I. Canudo. 2021. The tetrapod fossil record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Ibero-Armorican Island: an integrative review based on the outcrops of the western Tremp Syncline (Aragón, Huesca Province, NE Spain). Geosciences 11:162:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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