Earth:Piedrahita de Muñó Formation
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| Piedrahita de Muñó Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Berriasian-mid-Valanginian ~140–136 Ma | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Pedroso/Urbión Group |
| Underlies | Hortigüela Formation |
| Overlies | hiatus with Villar del Arzobispo Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 42°00′N 3°12′W / 42.0°N 3.2°W |
| Paleocoordinates | [ ⚑ ] 33°06′N 7°42′E / 33.1°N 7.7°E |
| Region | Burgos Province, Castile and León |
| Country |  Spain |
| Extent | Cameros Basin |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Piedrahita de Muñó |
  Piedrahita de Muñó Formation (Spain)  Piedrahita de Muñó Formation (Castile and León) | |
The Piedrahita de Muñó Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation of the Cameros Basin in northern Spain .[1] Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2] Also fossils of Lepidotes sp., Polacanthus sp. and Testudines indet. were found in the formation.[1]
Correlation
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with theropod tracks
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Piedrahita de Muñó Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 517-607
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
Further reading
- X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Meijide, F. Torcida, J. Welle, C. Fuentes, L. A. Izquierdo, D. Montero, G. Pérez, and V. Urién. 1999. Espinas dermicas del dinosaurio anquilosaurio Polacanthus en las facies Weald de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, España) [Dermal spines of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Polacanthus in the Weald facies of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, Spain)]. Estudios Geológicos 55:267-272
- Platt, N.H., and C.A. Meyer. 1991. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Spain: their sedimentological and palaeoecological context. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 86. 321-333.
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