ammonites
Armuña, Segovia (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.1° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 2.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)

• "Garumnian"; no formation name given

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; white, yellow, argillaceous, sandy siliciclastic sediments

• "a detrital unit...deltaic with freshwater influences."
• "the fossiliferous section is composed of gravel, sand and clays of white and yellowish colors with cross-stratification"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in the 1980s

• discovered during cartographic mapping for the National Geological Map of Spain (MAGNA)

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48861: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.04.2005