La Pedrera de Rúbies 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
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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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