PBDB Collection

Armuña, Segovia: Late/Upper Campanian, Spain
collected 1980

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958	Hernández et al. 2007
	= Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM specimens

	Teleostei indet. Müller 1846	Hernández et al. 2007
	= Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM specimens
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Sanz and Buscalioni 1987
	UPUAM 14066, 14067 and 14069
Reptilia - Abelisauridae

	cf. Arcovenator sp. Tortosa et al. 2014	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 14044-14049
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888		2 specimens
	= Rhabdodon sp. Matheron 1869	Hernández et al. 2007
	UP-AUM AR04, AR05
	= cf. Rhabdodon sp. Matheron 1869	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM AR04 and 05
Reptilia

	Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 14054 and 14055

	Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 14057

	Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885	Le Loeuff 1993	3 specimens
	= Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993	Hernández et al. 2007
	UP-AUM AR03
	= Lithostrotia indet. Wilson and Upchurch 2003	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 13951, 13952, 13956, 13957 and 14050-14053

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Sanz and Buscalioni 1987	2 specimens
	= Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa 1928	Buscalioni et al. 2001
	UPUAM A1 and A2
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Pérez-García et al. 2016

	Musturzabalsuchus sp. Buscalioni et al. 1997	Hernández et al. 2007
	UPUAM 502
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Pérez-García et al. 2016

	Anguimorpha indet. (Fürbringer 1900)	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 14056

	Mosasauroidea indet. ()	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	spelled with current rank as Mosasauria
	STUS 14567
Reptilia - Testudines

	Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)	Sanz and Buscalioni 1987
	= Dortoka sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Hernández et al. 2007
	= Dortoka vasconica Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	UPUAM 14009-14011 and others

	Iberoccitanemys convenarum (Laurent et al. 2002)	Pérez-García et al. 2016
	synonym of Iberoccitanemys atlanticum
	STUS 12111, STUS 12113-12115, STUS 12117-12119, STUS 14599-14608, STUS 14616, UPUAM 14012-14036
Reptilia

	Solemys sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Hernández et al. 2007
	STUS 12161, STUS 14588-14592, UPUAM 14005-14008
see common names

Geography

Country:	Spain	State/province:	Castilla y Leon	County:	Segovia
Coordinates:	41.1° North, 4.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	31.7° North, 1.9° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	866 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Vegas de Matute
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	"cross stratification",white,yellow argillaceous,sandy "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "the fossiliferous section is composed of gravel, sand and clays of white and yellowish colors with cross-stratification"
Environment:	delta plain
Geology comments: "a detrital unit...deltaic with freshwater influences."

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	dispersed
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	medium
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	some

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:	1980s
Collection method comments: discovered during cartographic mapping for the National Geological Map of Spain (MAGNA)

Metadata

Database number:	48861
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-04-01 06:11:04	Last modified:	2023-01-10 15:03:37
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-04-01 06:11:04
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

30625.

ETE

J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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