La Cabana/El Toral sand quarries: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Schroederichthyinae indet.
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhombopterygia indet. Cappetta 1980
Rhinobatus indet.
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Hamrabatis bernardezi Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygonoides indet. Landemaine 1991
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium sp. Woodward 1889
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes
Lamniformes indet. Berg 1958
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Cenocarcharias rochebrunei
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
Squalicorax cf. intermedius Glickman 1971
Squalicorax baharijensis (Stromer 1927)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
Archaeolamna sp. Siverson 1992
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Paranomotodon sp. Herman 1975
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980
Protolamna compressidens (Herman 1977)
original and current combination Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Haimirichiidae
Carcharias amonensis (Cappetta and Case 1975)
recombined as Haimirichia amonensis
Roulletia bureaui Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon sp. Buckland 1838
Ionoscopiformes
Ionoscopiformes indet. Grande and Bemis 1998
Acipenseriformes
Cylindracanthus sp. Leidy 1856
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus semiplicatus
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonii indet. Latreille 1800
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Aigialosauridae
Carentonosaurus sp. Rage and Néraudeau 2004
Carentonosaurus mineaui Rage and Néraudeau 2004
Reptilia - Simoliophiidae
Simoliophis sp. Sauvage 1880
Reptilia - Dolichosauridae
Dolichosauridae indet. Gervais 1852
Reptilia
Alligatoroidea indet. Gray 1844
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
    = Lithostrotia indet. Wilson and Upchurch 2003
Mannion et al. 2013
Reptilia - Ornithocheiridae
Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Athrodon sp. Sauvage 1880
Coelodus sp. Haeckel
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Caturidae indet. Owen 1860
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus spp.
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula cf. casei Estes 1969
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
cf. Coriops sp. Estes 1969
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Ichthyodectidae indet. Crook 1892
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Asturias
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 5.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° North, 1.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Cabaña
Stratigraphy comments: "the La Cabana Formation includes various lithological units belonging to two depositional sequences....The base of the formation consists of a 70-110 cm thick orange limestone bed that overlies the tidal estuarine sand of the middle Cenomanian Latores Formation. The internal structure of this bed is a massive, porous basal limestone grading upward into a finely laminated, indurated limestone" "A 7-35 cm thick transgressive lag overlies this erosion surface. It is made of bioclastic sandy silt which includes some slabs...of caliche clasts with root traces"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive "limestone"
Secondary lithology: silty,sandy "limestone"
Lithology description: "orange limestone....this bed is a massive, porous basal limestone grading upward into a finely laminated, indurated limestone....[and] bioclastic sandy silt"
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: "deposited in a marine coastal lagoon with tidally influenced channels. The base of the bed (and of the formation) represents a marine flooding surface which may be correlative with the maximum flooding surface of a sequence initiated in the Latores Formation."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Unidad de Paleontologia of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (will be stored in Faculdad de Geologia of the Universidad de Oviedo)
Metadata
Database number:98396
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Oreska, P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-10-05 11:18:42 Last modified:2022-04-06 04:19:21
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-05 11:18:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33992.ETE R. Vullo, E. Bernardez, and A. D. Buscalioni. 2009. Vertebrates from the middle?-late Cenomanian La Cabana Formation (Asturias, northern Spain): Palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276:120-129 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]

Secondary references:

46153 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]