Veracruz 1 (VE1) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Aragón, Spain (42.3° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Posa Formation (Tremp Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper part of Gray unit; "Grey Garumnian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine delta plain; bioturbated, gray, calcareous mudstone and brown, yellow mudstone

• "fine-grain mixed sedimentation in a low-energy, transitional environment (e.g. lagoon or small ponds in the coastal area)" with evidence of wildfire.
• "a 5,7 m-thick level of bioturbated grey marls with abundant invertebrate and vertebrate fossil and plant remains. This level passes gradually upwards to ocher-brown mudstones without bioturbation." further refined (2024) to "in a 2 m-thick level of dark gray organic-rich marly mudstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

Primary reference: M. Pérez-Pueyo, V. Gilabert, M. Moreno-Azanza, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas and J. I. Canudo. 2019. Late Maastrichtian fossil assemblage of Veracruz 1 site (Beranuy, NE Spain): wildfires and bones in a transitional environment. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, J. I. Canudo, X. Pereda, & P. Huerta (eds.), VIII Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 111-113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224902: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes sp.2 Hirsch 1985 crocodile eggshell
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 decapod
Bryozoa
 Bryozoa -
Bryozoa indet.1 bryozoan
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835
Bacumorphomonocolpites
  -
Bacumorphomonocolpites sp.1 Sole de Porta 1971
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Inaperturopollenites sp.1 Potonié 1966
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Klukisporites scaberis1 Dettmann 1963
Cicatricosisporites sp.1 Potonie and Gelletich 1933
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllidites sp.1 Couper 1958
  -
Biretisporites potoniaei1 Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Pteridopsida
  -
Matonisporites sp.1 Couper 1958
Cyathidites minor1 Couper 1953
Alisporites
  -
Alisporites sp.1 Daugherty 1941
Cycadopites
  -
Cycadopites sp.1 Wodehouse 1933
Concavissimisporites
  -
Lusatisporis
  -
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Hepaticae
  -
Zlivisporis blanensis1 Pacltova 1961 liverwort
Magnoliopsida
  -
Rhoipites sp.1 Wodehouse 1933
Echimonocolpites sp.1 der Hammen and de Mutis 1965
Angiospermae
 Proteales -
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites sp.1 Couper 1953
Algae
  - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites parvus1 Nakoman 1966
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia cf. robusta1 Brenner 1963 spikemoss
Neoraistrickia truncata1 Potonié 1956 spikemoss
Patellasporites distaverrucosus1 Kemp 1970 spikemoss
 Selaginellales -
Camarozonosporites insignis1 Norris 1967 clubmoss
Trudopollis
  -
Sepispinula
  -
Pseudoplicapollis
  -
Pseudoplicapollis sp.1 Krutzsch 1967
Plicapollis
  -
Subtriporopollenites
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Chomotriletes
  -
Chomotriletes minor1 Pocock 1970
Dinophyceae
  -
Spiniferites cf. ramosus1 Lentin and Williams 1973