Higuerueles Formation
The Higueruelas (Spanish) or Higuerueles Formation (Catalan) is a Tithonian geologic formation in the Teruel and Valencia provinces of Spain.[1] Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2]
| Higueruelas Formation Stratigraphic range: Tithonian ~150–146 Ma | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Villar del Arzobispo Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 40.7°N 0.9°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 31.6°N 8.5°E |
| Region | Teruel, Valencia |
| Country |  Spain |
| Extent | Maestrazgo Basin |
  Higuerueles Formation (Spain) | |
Correlation
| 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
- Higueruelas Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
Bibliography
- Ruiz Omeñaca, J.I.; X. Pereda Suberbiola; J. Company, and M. Belinchón. 2010. Dientes de arcosaurios (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) del Jurásico Superior de Buñol (Valencia) - Archosaurian teeth (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Buñol (Valencia). Geogaceta 48. 79–82.
- 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
- Pérez Lorente, F., and M. M. Romero Molina. 2001. Nuevas icnitas de dinosaurios terópodos y saurópodos en Galve y Miravete de la Sierra (Teruel. España) - New theropod and sauropod dinosaur footprints in Galve and Miravete de la Sierra (Teruel. Spain). Geogaceta 30. 115–118.
- Bataller, J.B. 1960. Los vertebrados del Cretácico Español (The vertebrates from the Spanish Cretaceous). Notas y Comunicaciones del Instituto Geologico y Minero de España 60. 141–164.
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