Blasi 1, Arén: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 1999-2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Cruzado-Caballero and Canudo 2007 5 individuals
MPZ 2007/702, 930-934
Euhadrosauria indet. Weishampel et al. 1993
López-Martínez et al. 2001 1 individual
MPZ 99/665-667
    = Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2009
    = Blasisaurus canudoi n. gen., n. sp. Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2010
Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2010
+ MPZ 99/664, MPZ 2009/348
Reptilia
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Torices et al. 2004 2 specimens
MPZ 2004/3, 4, isolated teeth
    = Neoceratosauria indet. Novas 1991
Canudo et al. 2005
    = Theropoda informal indet. 1 Marsh 1881
Torices et al. 2015
Theropoda informal indet. 2 (Marsh 1881)
Torices et al. 2015 1 specimen
MPZ98/68, tooth
Alligatoroidea indet. Gray 1844
López-Martínez et al. 2001
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
similar to Allodaposuchus and Thoracosaurus
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragón County:Huesca
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 0.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 0.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arén
Local section:Areny Local bed:0 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: top of formation; upper part of chron c30n, 65.6-68.7 mya
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",coarse,ferruginous,micaceous,white cherty/siliceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "the sands of the Arén Sandstone are composed of quartz with scarce feldspar, chert, quartzite, mica, and fossil debris, and show medium- and large-scale cross-bedding...The sandstone is a mixed arenite with white, coarse, well-rounded grains. Iron nodules and remnants of iron crusts are locally present."
Environment:deltaic indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Rock censused:1000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection dates:1999-2007
Metadata
Database number:45435
Authorizer:M. Carrano, G. Lloyd, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant, M. Oreska, P. Mannion, G. Lloyd
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-22 12:40:20 Last modified:2022-04-08 15:42:06
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-22 12:40:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17660.ETE J. I. Canudo, L. Ardévol, G. Cuenca-Bescós, N. López-Martínez, X. Murelaga, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and X. Orue-Etxebarria. 1999. New dinosaur localities near the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary from Arén (Huesca, Spain). In J. I. Canudo & G. Cuenca-Bescós (ed.), IV European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology. Programme and Abstracts. Field Guide 40-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

56254 A. Blanco, A. Prieto-Márquez, and S. De Esteban-Trivigno. 2015. Diversity of hadrosauroid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican Island (European Archipelago) assessed from dentary morphology. Cretaceous Research 56:447-457 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19728ETE J. I. Canudo, J. A. Andrés, J. L. Barco, P. Cruzado-Caballero, G. Cuenca-Bescós, R. Royo-Torres, C. J. Rubio, C. Rubio, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2006. Rentabilizando socialmente el patrimonio paleontológico: los últimos dinosaurios europeaos (Arén, Huesca) [Making the paleontological patrimony socially profitable: the last European dinosaurs (Arén, Huesca)]. VII Reunión Nacional de la Comisión de Patrimonio Geológico, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Asturia, 28-30 June, 2006. Sociedad Geológica de España [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17600ETE J. I. Canudo, J. L. Barco, P. Cruzado-Caballero, G. Cuenca-Bescós, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and R. Royo-Torres. 2005. Evidencias de predación de dinosaurios terópodos en el Maastrichtiense superior, Cretácico superior de Arén (Huesca) [Evidence of theropod dinosaur predation in the upper Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous of Arén (Huesca)]. Lucas Mallada 12:29-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28738ETE J. I. Canudo, G. Cuenca-Bescós, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Los últimos dinosaurios europeos: debates recientes sobre la extinción de los dinosaurios [The last European dinosaurs: recent debates on the extinction of the dinosaurs]. Historia Natural 7:42-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70541 J. Company, P. Cruzado-Caballero, and J. I. Canudo. 2015. Presence of diminutive hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) in the Maastrichtian of the south-central Pyrenees (Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):71-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28219ETE P. Cruzado-Caballero, J. I. Canudo, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2007. Los dinosaurios hadrosaurios (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) del Maastrichtiense superior (Cretácico Superior) de Arén (Huesca, España) [The hadrosaurian dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Arén (Huesca, Spain)]. IV Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Salas de los Infantes, Spain 55-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28220ETE P. Cruzado-Caballero and J. I. Canudo. 2007. Biodiversidad de los dinosaurios hadriosaurios de Blasi 1 y 3, Maastrichtiense superior (Cretácico Superior, Arén, Huesca) [Biodiversity of hadrosaurian dinosaurs from Blasi 1 and 3, upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous, Arén, Huesca)]. In: J. C. Braga, A. Checa, & M. Company (eds.), XXIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, Libro de resúmenes. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España y Universidad de Granada 38-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42493 P. Cruzado-Caballero, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. Blasisaurus canudoi gen. et sp. nov., a new lambeosaurine dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) from the latest Cretaceous of Arén (Huesca, Spain). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1507-1517 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]
77787 P. Cruzado-Caballero, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and J. I. Canudo. 2010. Evidencias de la coexistencia de dinosaurios hadrosaurinos y lambeosaurinos en el Maastrichtiano superior de la Península Ibérica (Arén, Huesca, España) [Evidence of the coexistence of hadrosaurine and lambeosaurine dinosaurs in the upper Maastrichtian of the Iberian Peninsula (Arén, Huesca, Spain)]. Ameghiniana 47(2):153-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41120 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosauroids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An update. Natura Nascosta 39:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55204 A. Galobart, A. Santos-Cubedo, M. Suñer and J. I. Canudo. 2011. Paleontological discoveries and studies. In À. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599 E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56237 Y. Laurent. 2003. Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]. Strata, Série 2 41:1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
11838ETE N. López-Martínez, J. I. Canudo, L. Ardèvol, X. Pereda Suberbiola, X. Orue-Etxebarria, G. Cuenca-Bescós, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, X. Murelaga, and M. Feist. 2001. New dinosaur sites correlated with Upper Maastrichtian pelagic deposits in the Spanish Pyrenees: implications for the dinosaur extinction pattern in Europe. Cretaceous Research 22(1):41-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17698ETE O. Oms and J. I. Canudo. 2004. Datación magnetoestratigrafica de los dinosaurios del Cretácico terminal (Maastrichtiense superior) de Arén (Huesca, Unidad Surpirenaica Central) [Magnetostratigraphic dating of the terminal Cretaceous dinosaurs (upper Maastrichtian) of Arén (Huesca, central Pyrénées)]. Geo-Temas 6(5):51-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33025ETE X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. I. Canudo, J. Company, P. Cruzado-Caballero, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2009. Hadrosauroid dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):946-951 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
81262 M. Pérez-Pueyo, P. Cruzado-Caballero, M. Moreno-Azanza, B. Vila, D. Castanera, J. M. Gasca, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas, and J. I. Canudo. 2021. The tetrapod fossil record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Ibero-Armorican Island: an integrative review based on the outcrops of the western Tremp Syncline (Aragón, Huesca Province, NE Spain). Geosciences 11:162:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47749 A. Prieto-Marquez, F. M. D. Vecchia, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2013. Diversity, relationships, and biogeography of the lambeosaurine dinosaurs from the European archipelago, with description of the new aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis. PLoS One 8(7):e69835:1-44 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
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]
56091 A. Torices, P. J. Currie, J. I. Canudo and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2015. Theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):611-626 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
17618ETE A. Torices, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo and N. López-Martínez. 2004. Nuevos datos sobre los dinosaurios terópodos (Saurischia: Theropoda) del Cretácico superior de los Pirineos Sur-Centrales (Huesca y Lleida) [New data on the theropod dinosaurs (Saurischia: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the south-central Pyrenées (Huesca and Lleida)]. Geo-Temas 6(5):71-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]