ammonites
La Cantalera, Josa (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Aragón, Spain (41.0° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blesa Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Calizas y Margas de Blesa"; facies C

•Lowest part of the lower Blesa Formation (Badiola et al 2012)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; paleosol/pedogenic, gray, carbonaceous claystone

• "non-permanent water marshy area"
• "a wide outcrop of grey clays with very abundant vegetal remains, carbonate nodules formed in paleosols, and reelaborated marine fossils. The site was formed in a palustrine environment with no permanent water and abundant vegetation in the surrounding area"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 1997. Primera evidencia de un área de alimentación de dinosaurios herbívoros en el Cretácico Inferior de España (Teruel) [First evidence of a feeding area of herbivorous dinosaurs in the Lower Cretaceous of Spain (Teruel)]. Monografias de la Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas, Quimicas y Naturales de Zaragoza 10:1-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53921: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.09.2005, edited by Matt Carrano, Roger Benson and Philip Mannion