- Source: Escucha Formation
The Escucha Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel provinces of northeastern Spain whose strata date back to the late Aptian to middle Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
The approximately 70 m (230 ft) thick formation underlies the Utrillas Formation and overlies Castrillo de la Reina, Benassal & Oliete Formations. The Escucha Formation comprises siltstones, mudstones, sandstones, coal, siltstones and amber, in which several fossil insects were found. The formation was deposited in a variety of continental to paralic (deltaic) environments.
Fossil content
The Escucha Formation has provided the following fossils, among others:
= Dinosaurs
=Other dinosaurs
Allosauroidea indet.
Iguanodontia indet.
Titanosauriformes indet.
Reptiles
Aragochersis lignitesta
Toremys cassiopeia
Trachydermochelys sp.
Testudines indet.
Anteophthalmosuchus escuchae
Goniopholididae indet.
Hulkepholis plotos
Fish
Chondrichthyes indet.
Osteichthyes indet.
= Insects
=Other arthropods
Invertebrates
Ostracoda indet.
Bivalvia indet.
Gastropoda indet.
Flora
Pinophyta
Angiospermae indet.
Correlation
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Monte Grande Formation, Albian formation of the Cantabrian Basin
Caranguejeira Conglomerate, Aptian to Cenomanian formation of the Lusitanian Basin
Baltic, Burmese, Dominican and Mexican amber
References
= Bibliography
=Kirkland, J.I.; Alcalá, L.; Loewen, M.A.; Espílez, E.; Mampel, L.; Wiersma, J.P. (2013). "The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. From the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain". PLoS ONE. 8 (12): e80405. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...880405K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080405. PMC 3847141. PMID 24312471.
Ortega Blanco, J.; Rasnitsyn, A.P.; Delclòs, X. (2010). "A new family of ceraphronoid wasps from Early Cretaceous Álava Amber, Spain". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (2): 265–276. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0014. S2CID 58934033. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
Pérez de la Fuente, R.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X.; Engel, M.S. (2012). "Snakefly diversity in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera)". ZooKeys (204): 1–40. Bibcode:2012ZooK..204....1P. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.2740. PMC 3391719. PMID 22787417.
Pérez García, A.; Espílez, E.; Mampel, L.; Alcalá, L. (2020). "A new basal turtle represented by the two most complete skeletons of Helochelydridae in Europe". Cretaceous Research. 107: Article 104291. Bibcode:2020CrRes.10704291P. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104291. S2CID 210279023.
Peyrot, Daniel; Rodríguez López, Juan Pedro; Lassaletta, Luis; Meléndez, Nieves; Barrón, Eduardo (2007). "Contributions to the palaeoenvironmental knowledge of the Escucha Formation in the Lower Cretaceous Oliete Sub-basin, Teruel, Spain". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 6 (6–7): 469–481. Bibcode:2007CRPal...6..469P. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2007.09.014.
Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1–880. ISBN 9780520941434. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
Further reading
L. Alcalá, E. Espílez, L. Mampel, J. I. Kirkland, M. Ortiga, D. Rubio, A. González, D. Ayala, A. Cobos, R. Royo-Torres, F. Gascó and M. D. Pesquero. 2012. A new Lower Cretaceous vertebrate bonebed near Arino (Tereul, Aragon, Spain); found and managed in a joint collaboration between a mining company and a palaeontological park. Geoheritage 4:275-286
J. I. Canudo, A. Cobos, C. Martín-Closas, X. Murelaga, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, R. Royo-Torres, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and L. M. Sender. 2005. Sobre la presencia de dinosaurios ornitópodos en la Formación Escucha (Cretácico Inferior, Albiense): redescubierto “Iguanodon” en Utrillas (Teruel) [On the presence of ornithopod dinosaurs in the Escucha Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian): redescribing “Iguanodon” in Utrillas (Teruel)]. Fundamental 6:51-56
E. Peñalver, D. A. Grimaldi, and X. Delclos. 2006. Early Cretaceous spider web with its prey. Science 312:1761
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Escucha Formation
- Europelta
- Evaniidae
- 2024 in arthropod paleontology
- Nodosauridae
- Proa valdearinnoensis
- 2012 in paleoentomology
- James I. Kirkland
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Spain
- List of European dinosaurs
