Laño L2: Late/Upper Campanian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
? Elochelys sp. Nopsca 1931
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
Polysternon atlanticum Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
recombined as Iberoccitanemys atlanticum
Reptilia - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoia laurasiae Rage 1996
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
recombined as Menarana laurasiae
Reptilia
Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti Buscalioni et al. 1997
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
Ischyrochampsa sp. Vasse 1995
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
nomen dubium belonging to Neosuchia
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Struthiosaurus sp. Bunzel 1870
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp. (Matheron 1869)
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
Reptilia
Lirainosaurus astibiae Sanz et al. 1999
Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Castilla y Leon County:Burgos
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 0.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:747 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vitoria
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: same horizon as L1A, but on other side of the quarry (northeast part)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,medium sandstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination,ferruginous mudstone
Lithology description: fine to medium-grained deposits of sands and greenish muds (authors describe L1A as sands and laminated sands that pass upward into laminated muds with plant remains up to an irregular ferruginous surface)
Environment:fine channel fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37199
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:28406
Created:2004-03-04 12:07:39 Last modified:2007-01-23 10:31:36
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-04 12:07:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9512. X. Pereda-Suberbiola and J. Sanz. 1999. The ornithopod dinosaur Rhabdodon from the Upper Cretaceous of Lano (Iberian Peninsula). Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava 14(1):257-272 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

17647ETE J. I. Canudo and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2003. Los restos directos de dinosaurios teropódos (excluyendo Aves) en España [Direct remains of theropod dinosaurs (excluding Aves) in Spain]. Ciencias de la Tierra 26:347-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43435 V. Díez Díaz, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. L. Sanz. 2012. Juvenile and adult teeth of the titanosaurian dinosaur Lirainosaurus (Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Iberia. Geobios 45:265-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
9513 X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1999. Ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Lano (Iberian Peninsula). Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava 14(1):273-288 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]
9559 X. Pereda-Suberbiola, H. Asibia, X. Murelaga, J. J. Elzorza, and J. J. Gomez-Alday. 2000. Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 157:247-275 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]
13503ETE J. L. Sanz, J. E. Powell, J. Le Loeuff, R. Martinez, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1999. Sauropod remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Laño (northcentral Spain). Titanosaur phylogenetic relationships. Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava 14(especial 1):235-255 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19710ETE F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor. 2005. Los dinosaurios de Castilla y León [The dinosaurs of Castilla y León]. Patrimonio Histórico de Castilla y León 6(23):23-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]