Morella: Late/Upper Barremian, Spain
collected by Vilanova 1873
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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? Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| vertebra | ||||||||||
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Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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| long bones | ||||||||||
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= Iguanodon atherfieldensis
Hooley 1925
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 1998 | |||||||||
| recombined as Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis | ||||||||||
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Morelladon beltrani n. gen., n. sp.
Gasulla et al. 2015
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Gasulla et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| CMP-MS-0 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Valenciana | County: | Castellón |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 0.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.4° North, 9.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 925 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Arcillas de Morella | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: questionable formation assignment
Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Vilanova | Collection dates: | 1873 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 64408 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd | Enterer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-08 06:34:59 | Last modified: | 2022-02-28 08:40:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-08 06:34:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59274. | J. Vilanova. 1873. [Hallarse hace agun tiempo en posesion de únicos restos fósiles] [Found some time ago in possession of unique fossil remains]. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Actas de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural) 2:8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54836 | M. L. Casanovas Cladellas. 1992. Novedades en el registro fósil de dinosaurios del levante español [Developments in the fossil record of dinosaurs from the Spanish Levant]. Zubía 10:139-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 54616 | G. Cuenca-Bescós, O. Amo, J. L. Barco, J. I. Canudo, R. Royo-Torres and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1999. Dinosaurios de Aragón [Dinosaurs of Aragon]. Zubía 17:235-257 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 66119 | J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, I. Narváez, F. Ortega, and J. L. Sanz. 2015. A new sail-backed styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain. PLoS One 10(12):e0144167 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] | |
| 19750 | ETE | X. Pereda Suberbiola, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, and J. I. Canudo. 2006. Los primeros descubrimientos de dinosaurios ibéricos [The first discoveries of Iberian dinosaurs]. Naturaleza Aragonesa 17:4-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 53530 | X. Pereda Suberbiola and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2013. La deconstrucción de Iguanodon. Apuntes sobre la diversidad de los dinosaurios ornitópodos en el Cretácico Inferior de Europa [Deconstructing Iguanodon. Notes on the diversity of ornithopod dinosaurs in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe]. Naturaleza Aragonesa 28:11-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 18587 | ETE | J. Royo y Gómez. 1920. Los yacimientos Weáldicos del Maestrazgo [The Wealden localities of Maestrazgo]. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 20:261-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 56558 | J. Royo y Gómez. 1926. Los vertebrados del Cretácico Español de facies Weáldica [The vertebrates of the Spanish Cretaceous from the Wealden facies]. Boletin del Instituto Geológico de España 47:171-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 62681 | J. Royo y Gómez. 1928. Les Vertébrés du Faciès Wealdien Espagnol [The vertebrates of the Spanish Wealden facies]. Congrès Géologique International, Comptes Rendus de la XIVe Session 4:2039-2042 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29947 | ETE | J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 1998. Sobre las especies de Iguanodon (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) encontradas en el Cretácico inferior de España [On the species of Iguanodon (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) found in the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]. Geogaceta 24:275-278 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 79237 | U. Villanueva-Amadoz, C. Santisteban, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2015. Age determination of the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Spain). Historical Biology 27(3–4):389-387 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |