Chera 1c: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Lirainosaurus sp.
Sanz et al. 1999
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Lirainosaurus cf. astibiae
Sanz et al. 1999
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Company et al. 2009 | |||||||||
humerus, MGUV 17721 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Company et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Lissamphibia indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Company et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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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] | |
32749 | ETE | 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] |