Arcillas de Morella Formation

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

Arcillas de Morella Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (lower Aptian)
Type	Geological formation
Location
Region	Europe
Country	Spain

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Arcillas de Morella Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Hypsilophodon[1]	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[1]		Hypsilophodon. Iguanodon. Mantellisaurus. Vallibonavenatrix.
Iguanodon bernissartensis[1]	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[1]
cf. Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[2]
Morelladon beltrani	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[3]
Sauropoda[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[1]
Vallibonavenatrix cani	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[4]
Baryonychinae[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically located in Provincia de Castellon, Spain.[1]

Correlation

Early Cretaceous stratigraphy of Iberia

Ma	Age	Paleomap \ Basins	Cantabrian	Olanyà	Cameros	Maestrazgo	Oliete	Galve	Morella	South Iberian	Pre-betic	Lusitanian
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
Sources

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

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. 562. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
2. J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, F. Ortega and J. L. Sanz. 2014. New hadrosauriform cranial remains from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (lower Aptian) of Morella, Spain. Cretaceous Research 47(1):19-24
3. 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144167. PMID 26673161.
4. 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.