Chera 1c: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Lirainosaurus sp. Sanz et al. 1999
1 specimen
    = Lirainosaurus cf. astibiae Sanz et al. 1999
Company et al. 2009
humerus, MGUV 17721
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
Company et al. 2009
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Lissamphibia indet. Haeckel 1866
Company et al. 2009
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Company et al. 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Valencia
Coordinates: 39.6° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.3° North, 0.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Altitude:592 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sierra Perenchiza
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Company & Szentesi (2012) list this formation as late Campanian to early Maastrichtian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,carbonaceous marl
Secondary lithology: lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The formation is composed of fresh-water carbonate marls and limestones. The taxa collected and the sedimentological traits suggest a swamp or lacustrine environment"
Environment:mire/swamp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Lepisosteidae, Lissamphibia, Squamata indet.
Metadata
Database number:96460
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-06-08 12:32:52 Last modified:2015-05-26 17:01:58
Access level:the public Released:2010-06-08 12:32:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

37234 J. Company. 2011. Bone histology of the titanosaur Lirainosaurus astibiae (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Latest Cretaceous of Spain. Naturwissenschaften 98:67-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32749ETE J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2009. Nuevos restos fosiles del dinosaurio Lirainosaurus (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) en el Cretacico Superior (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano) de la Peninsula Iberica. Ameghiniana 46(2):391-405 [M. Carrano/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]
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]