Where: Asturias, Spain (43.3° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 1.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Cabaña Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• "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"
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; massive limestone and silty, sandy limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float),
• Unidad de Paleontologia of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (will be stored in Faculdad de Geologia of the Universidad de Oviedo)
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 98396: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 05.10.2010, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus semiplicatus lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Dolichosauridae indet. squamates | |
Simoliophis sp. Sauvage 1880 snake | |
Carentonosaurus sp. Rage and Néraudeau 2004 squamates
Carentonosaurus mineaui Rage and Néraudeau 2004 squamates | |
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Ornithocheiridae indet. pterosaur | |
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Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur | |
Actinopteri | |
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin | |
Caturidae indet. Owen 1860 bowfin | |
Coelodus sp. Haeckel
Athrodon sp. Sauvage 1880 | |
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857 | |
Enchodus spp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Ichthyodectidae indet. Crook 1892 | |
Paralbula cf. casei Estes 1969 | |
cf. Coriops sp. Estes 1969 bonefish | |
Osteichthyes | |
Cylindracanthus sp. Leidy 1856 ray-finned fish | |
Ionoscopiformes indet. Grande and Bemis 1998 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Edaphodon sp. Buckland 1838 chimaera | |
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish | |
Rhinobatus indet. guitarfish
Rhombopterygia indet. Cappetta 1980 guitarfish | |
Hamrabatis bernardezi Vullo et al. 2007 ray | |
Ptychotrygonoides indet. Landemaine 1991 ray | |
Cantioscyllium sp. Woodward 1889 nurse shark | |
Lamniformes indet. Berg 1958 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991 goblin shark | |
Paranomotodon sp. Herman 1975 thresher shark | |
Protolamna sp., "Protolamna compressidens" = Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens
Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980 mackerel shark
"Protolamna compressidens" = Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens Herman 1977 mackerel shark | |
Cenocarcharias rochebrunei sand tiger shark | |
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax cf. intermedius Glickman 1971 crow shark
Squalicorax baharijensis Stromer 1927 crow shark | |
Archaeolamna sp. Siverson 1992 mackerel shark | |
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis, Roulletia bureaui
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark
Roulletia bureaui Vullo et al. 2007 mackerel shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |