Arcillas_de_Morella_Formation

Arcillas de Morella Formation

Arcillas de Morella Formation

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The Arcillas de Morella Formation is a geological formation in Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

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Geology

The formation was formally named and defined by Canérot and colleagues in 1982.[3] The formation predominantly consists of red clays and continental sandstones, with some marine intercalations.[4]

Vertebrate paleofauna

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Turtles

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Plesiosaurs

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References

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    Villanueva-Amadoz, Uxue; Santisteban, Carlos; Santos-Cubedo, Andrés (2015-04-03). "Age determination of the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Spain)". Historical Biology. 27 (3–4): 389–397. doi:10.1080/08912963.2013.874422. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 128775513.
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    Villanueva-Amadoz, Uxue; Santisteban, Carlos; Santos-Cubedo, Andrés (2015-04-03). "Age determination of the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Spain)". Historical Biology. 27 (3–4): 389–397. doi:10.1080/08912963.2013.874422. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 128775513.
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    Elisabete Malafaia; José Miguel Gasulla; Fernando Escaso; Iván Narváez; José Luis Sanz; Francisco Ortega (2019). "A new spinosaurid theropod (Dinosauria: Megalosauroidea) from the late Barremian of Vallibona, Spain: Implications for spinosaurid diversity in the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula". Cretaceous Research. in press: 104221. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104221.
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    Gasulla, José M.; Escaso, Fernando; Ortega, Francisco; Sanz, José L. (January 2014). "New hadrosauriform cranial remains from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (lower Aptian) of Morella, Spain". Cretaceous Research. 47: 19–24. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.10.004.
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    Gasulla, José Miguel; Escaso, Fernando; Narváez, Iván; Ortega, Francisco; Sanz, José Luis (2015). "A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain". PLOS ONE. 10 (12): e0144167. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1044167G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144167. PMC 4691198. PMID 26673161.
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    Mocho, Pedro; Escaso, Fernando; Gasulla, José M; Galobart, Àngel; Poza, Begoña; Santos-Cubedo, Andrés; Sanz, José L; Ortega, Francisco (2023-09-28). "New sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary history of Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad124. ISSN 0024-4082.
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    Quesada, Juan M.; Pérez-García, Adán; Gasulla, José Miguel; Ortega, Francisco (2019-02-01). "Plesiosauria remains from the Barremian of Morella (Castellón, Spain) and first identification of Leptocleididae in the Iberian record". Cretaceous Research. 94: 8–24. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.10.010. ISSN 0195-6671. S2CID 134139253.
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