La Pedrera de Rubies Formation

La Pedrera de Rubies Formation
Stratigraphic range: late Berriasian - early Barremian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Pre-Pyrenees
Area Montsec
Location
Region Catalonia
Country  Spain

The La Pedrera de Rubies Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Catalonia, Spain.

Vertebrate fauna

The La Pedrera de Rubies Formation has yielded the enantiornithine bird Noguerornis and the scincogekkomorph lizard Pedrerasaurus, [1][2][3][4] but also the indeterminate avialan Ilerdopteryx.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. ↑ Lacasa-Ruiz, A. (1989) New genus of fossil bird from the Neocomian locality of Montsec (Lerida province, Spain). Estudios geológicos 45(5-6):417-425.
  3. ↑ Chiappe, L. and Lacasa-Ruiz (2002). "Noguerornis gonzalezi (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain." Pp. 230-239 in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.
  4. ↑ A. Bolet and S. E. Evans. 2010. A new lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Catalonia (Spain), and the Mesozoic lizards of the Iberian Peninsula. Cretaceous Research 31:447-457
  5. ↑ Kellner, A. (2002). "A review of avian Mesozoic fossil feathers." pp. 389-404. in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bibliography

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp.  ISBN 0-520-24209-2.


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