Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 3: Late/Upper Barremian, Spain
collected 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida - Cheirolepidiaceae
Frenelopsis sp. Schenk 1869
Canudo et al. 2008
Coniferales - Brachyphyllaceae
Brachyoxylon sp. Hollick and Jeffrey 1909
Canudo et al. 2008
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Selachii indet.
    = Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Gasulla et al. 2011
3 species
Helochelydra sp. Nopcsa 1928
Gasulla et al. 2011
Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
    = Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia
Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Canudo et al. 2008
    = cf. Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Gasulla et al. 2011
"close to Theriosuchus"
    = aff. Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Tennant et al. 2016
? Thalattosuchia indet. Fraas 1901
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Polacanthus sp. Fox 1866
Canudo et al. 2004 11 specimens
CMP-3/141, 588, 747–749, 853, 935, 970, 971; CMP-3b/7, 8
Reptilia - Hypsilophodontidae
Hypsilophodontidae indet. Dollo 1882
Canudo et al. 2008
    = "Hypsilophodontidae" indet. Dollo 1882
Gasulla et al. 2011
Reptilia
Mantellisaurus sp. Paul 2007
Gasulla et al. 2011
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
Canudo et al. 2008
    = Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825
Gasulla et al. 2011
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet. (Charig and Milner 1986)
Carrano et al. 2012 19 specimens
    = Spinosauridae indet. Stromer 1915
Canudo et al. 2008
CMP3-182, 196, 360, 369, 370, 532, 538, 758-760, 790, 791, 896, 897, 1012, 3b/9, 3b/42, 3b/188, 3b/211
Reptilia
Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904
Canudo et al. 2008 3 specimens
    = Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Gasulla et al. 2008
CMP-3/648, 649, 746
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Canudo et al. 2008
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
    = Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958
Canudo et al. 2008
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Gasulla et al. 2011
unclassified
Teredolites sp. Leymerie 1842
Canudo et al. 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Valenciana County:Castellón
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 0.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:73 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Barremian
Age range of interval:130.00000 - 125.45000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arcillas de Morella
Local section:La Parreta Local bed:63 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Arcillas de Morella"

Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,brown,gray conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "gray and brown heterometric conglomerate distributed in lenticular deposits"
Environment:estuary/bay
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "a fluvial channel with marine influence on a transgressive surface"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:2006
Metadata
Also known as:CMP-3, CMP-3b, CMP-3c
Database number:61327
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-06-05 08:55:56 Last modified:2022-04-13 11:08:11
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-05 08:55:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17655.ETE J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Presencia de Baryonychinae (Theropoda) en el Aptiense inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Formación Arcillas de Morella (Morella, Castellón) [Presence of Baryonychinae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Arcillas de Morella Formation (Morella, Castellón)]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29955ETE J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, D. Gömez-Fernández, F. Ortega, J. L. Sanz and P. Yagüe. 2008. Primer evidencia de dientes aislados atribuidos a Spinosauridae (Theropoda) en al Aptiano inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Europa: Formación Arcillas se Morella (España) [First evidence of isolated teeth attributed to Spinosauridae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe: Arcillas Formation of Morella (Spain)]. Ameghiniana 45(4):649-662 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17692ETE J. I. Canudo, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2004. Los primeros dientes de anquilosaurio (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) descritos en el Cretácico Inferior de España [The first ankylosaurian teeth (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) described from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]. Revista Española de Paleontología 19(1):33-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41617 M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55329 R. Gaete, J. I. Canudo, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2011. Ornithischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 169-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81325 J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, F. Ortega and J. L. Sanz. 2013. A reappraisal of the spinosaurid baryonychines from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (lower Aptian) of Morella, Spain. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor & P. Huerta (ed.), VI Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 76-77 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55385 J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega, F. Escaso and A. Pérez-García. 2011. Los yacimientos de vertebrados de la Formación Arcillas de Morella (Aptiense inferior) [The vertebrate localities of the Arcillas Formation of Morella (lower Aptian)]. In A. Pérez-García, F. Gascó, J. M. Gasulla, & F. Escaso (eds.), Viajando a Mundos Pretéritos 157-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41033 J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega, X. Pereda Suberbiola, F. Escaso, and J. L. Sanz. 2011. Elementos de la armadura dérmica del dinosaurio anquilosaurio Polacanthus Owen, 1865, en el Cretácico Inferior de Morella (Castellón, España) [Dermal armor elements of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Polacanthus Owen, 1865, in the Lower Cretaceous of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Ameghiniana 48(4):508-519 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30813ETE J. M. Gasulla, J. L. Sanz, F. Escaso and P. Yagüe. 2008. Elementos de la cintura pélvica de dinosaurios saurópodos Titanosauriformes del Cretácico Inferior (Aptiense inferior) de Morella (Castellón) [Pelvic girdle elements of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Aptian) of Morella (Castellón)]. In J I Ruiz-Omeñaca, L Piñuela and J C García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 129-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75801 E. Malafaia, J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, I. Narvaéz, and F. Ortega. 2020. An update of the spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) fossil record from the Lower Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula: distribution, diversity, and evolutionary history. Journal of Iberian Geology 46:431-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55386 M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59838 J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
55315 B. Vila, M. Suñer, A. Santos-Cubedo, J. I. Canudo, B. Poza and A. Galobart. 2011. Saurischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 130-168 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]