Blasi 1, Arén: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 1999-2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Cruzado-Caballero and Canudo 2007 | 5 individuals | ||||||||
MPZ 2007/702, 930-934 | ||||||||||
Euhadrosauria indet.
Weishampel et al. 1993
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López-Martínez et al. 2001 | 1 individual | ||||||||
MPZ 99/665-667 | ||||||||||
= Lambeosaurinae indet.
Parks 1923
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Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2009 | |||||||||
= Blasisaurus canudoi n. gen., n. sp.
Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2010
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Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2010 | |||||||||
+ MPZ 99/664, MPZ 2009/348 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Torices et al. 2004 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
MPZ 2004/3, 4, isolated teeth | ||||||||||
= Neoceratosauria indet.
Novas 1991
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Canudo et al. 2005 | |||||||||
= Theropoda informal indet. 1
Marsh 1881
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Torices et al. 2015 | |||||||||
Theropoda informal indet. 2
(Marsh 1881)
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Torices et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MPZ98/68, tooth | ||||||||||
Alligatoroidea indet.
Gray 1844
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López-Martínez et al. 2001 | |||||||||
= Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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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
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] | |
19728 | ETE | 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] |
17600 | ETE | 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] |
28738 | ETE | 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] | |
28219 | ETE | 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] |
28220 | ETE | 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] | |
19147 | ETE | 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] | |
11838 | ETE | 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] |
17698 | ETE | 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] |
33025 | ETE | 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] | |
17618 | ETE | 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] |