El Castellar Formation

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The El Castellar Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel, Spain whose strata date back to the possibly the Valanginian to the Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Ornithopod tracks and dinosaur eggs are known from the formation.[2]

Amphibians

Amphibians
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images
Eodiscoglossus E. santonjae Frog
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Galverpeton[3] G. ibericum A member of Caudata.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Aragosaurus[2]

A. ischiaticus[2]

cf. Owenodon[4]

Indeterminate

cf. Paronychodon[5]

Indeterminate[5]

Possible indeterminate troodont remains.[2]

Styracosterna[6]

Indeterminate

Previously assigned to Mantellisaurus.[2]

Turtles

Turtles
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images
Dortokidae[7] Indeterminate

Mammals

Mammals
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images
Crusafontia C. cuencana Dryolestid
Iberica I. hahni Multituberculate
Spalacotherium S. henkeli Spalacotheriidae

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Correlation

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See also

References

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  1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 556-563. Template:ISBN.
  2. a b c d e "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
  3. R. Estes and B. Sanchíz. 1982. Early Cretaceous lower vertebrates from Galve (Teruel), Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1)
  4. Galton, P. M., 2012, Hypsilophodon foxii and other smaller bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the lower Cretaceous of southern England: In: Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, edited by Godefroit, P., Indiana University Press, Part 1, New investigations into the Iguanodon sinkhole at Bernissart and other Early Cretaceous localities in the Mons Basin (Belgium), p. 225-281.
  5. a b Listed as "?Paronychodon sp." in "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
  6. Listed as "Iguanodon cf. atherfieldensis" in "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
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Bibliography

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