El_Castellar_Formation
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]
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| El Castellar Formation | |
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| Stratigraphic range: Valanginian-Barremian ~135–125 Ma | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Sub-units | Lower and Upper Members |
| Underlies | Camarillas Formation |
| Overlies | Galve Formation |
| Thickness | 85–140 m (279–459 ft) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Claystone, sandstone |
| Other | Marl, conglomerate |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 40.7°N 0.9°W / 40.7; -0.9 |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 31.1°N 8.8°E / 31.1; 8.8 |
| Region | Aragón, Teruel |
| Country |  Spain |
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Ornithopod tracks and dinosaur eggs are known from the formation.[2]
Amphibians
More information Amphibians, Genus ...
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | Images |
| Eodiscoglossus | E. santonjae | Frog |  | |||
| Galverpeton[3] | G. ibericum | A member of Caudata. | ||||
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Dinosaurs
More information Dinosaurs, Genus ...
| Dinosaurs | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | Images |
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A. ischiaticus[2] |
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Indeterminate |
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cf. Paronychodon[5] |
Indeterminate[5] |
Possible indeterminate troodont remains.[2] | ||||
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Styracosterna[6] |
Indeterminate |
Previously assigned to Mantellisaurus.[2] | ||||
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Turtles
More information Turtles, Genus ...
| Turtles | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | Images |
| Dortokidae[7] | Indeterminate | |||||
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Mammals
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| Mammals | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | Images |
| Crusafontia | C. cuencana | Dryolestid | ||||
| Iberica | I. hahni | Multituberculate | ||||
| Spalacotherium | S. henkeli | Spalacotheriidae | ||||
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Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
More information Ma, Age ...
| Ma | Age | Paleomap \ Basins | Cantabrian | Olanyà | Cameros | Maestrazgo | Oliete | Galve | Morella | South Iberian | Pre-betic | Lusitanian | ||
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| 100 | Cenomanian | La Cabana | Sopeira | Utrillas | Mosquerela | Caranguejeira | ||||||||
| Altamira | Utrillas | |||||||||||||
| Eguino | ||||||||||||||
| 125 | Albian | Ullaga - Balmaseda | Lluçà | Traiguera | ||||||||||
| Monte Grande | Escucha | Escucha | Jijona | |||||||||||
| Itxina - Miono | ||||||||||||||
| Aptian | Valmaseda - Tellamendi | Ol Gp. - Castrillo | Benassal | Benassal | Olhos | |||||||||
| Font | En Gp. - Leza | Morella/Oliete | Oliete | Villaroya | Morella | Capas Rojas | Almargem | |||||||
| Patrocinio - Ernaga | Senyús | En Gp. - Jubela | Forcall | Villaroya | Upper Bedoulian | Figueira | ||||||||
| Barremian | Vega de Pas | Cabó | Abejar | Xert | Alacón | Xert | Huérguina | Assises | ||||||
| Prada | Artoles | Collado | Moutonianum | Papo Seco | ||||||||||
| Rúbies | Tera Gp. - Golmayo | Alacón/Blesa | Blesa | Camarillas | Mirambel | |||||||||
| 150 | Hauterivian | Ur Gp. - Pinilla | Llacova | Castellar | Tera Gp. - Pinilla | Villares | Porto da Calada | |||||||
| hiatus | ||||||||||||||
| Huerva | Gaita | |||||||||||||
| Valanginian | Villaro | Ur Gp. - Larriba | Ped Gp. - Hortigüela | |||||||||||
| Ped Gp. - Hortigüela | Ped Gp. - Piedrahita | |||||||||||||
| Peñacoba | Galve | Miravetes | ||||||||||||
| Berriasian | Cab Gp. - Arcera | Valdeprado | hiatus | Alfambra | ||||||||||
| TdL Gp. - Rupelo | Arzobispo | hiatus | Tollo | |||||||||||
| On Gp. - Huérteles Sierra Matute | ||||||||||||||
| Tithonian | Lastres | Tera Gp. - Magaña | Higuereles | Tera Gp. - Magaña | Lourinhã | |||||||||
| Arzobispo | ||||||||||||||
| Ágreda | ||||||||||||||
| Legend | Major fossiliferous, oofossiliferous, ichnofossiliferous, coproliferous, minor formation | |||||||||||||
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- 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. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
- R. Estes and B. Sanchíz. 1982. Early Cretaceous lower vertebrates from Galve (Teruel), Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1)
- 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.
- Listed as "?Paronychodon sp." in "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
- Listed as "Iguanodon cf. atherfieldensis" in "15.7 Provincia de la Rioja, Spain; 3. Castellar Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 560-561.
- Pérez-García, A.; Cobos, A.; Royo-Torres, R. (2017-06-01). "The oldest evidence of a dortokid turtle (stem Pleurodira) from the uppermost Hauterivian-basal Barremian El Castellar Formation (Teruel, Spain)". Journal of Iberian Geology. 43 (2): 139–146. doi:10.1007/s41513-017-0013-7. ISSN 1886-7995. S2CID 135098500.
Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2