Blesa Formation

Blesa Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Europe

The Bles Formation is a geological formation in Teruel and La Rioja, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs of the Blesa Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Superorder:

  1. Coprolites.[1]
  2. Eggs.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]
  2. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]
A dinosaur egg.

Genus:

  1. Indterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]

Oogenus:

 Fossil egg known only from eggshell fragments.[2]

Genus:

  1. Iguanodon sp.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]

Genus:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]

Infraorder:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]
  1. "(= Camarasauridae indet.)"[1]

Suborder:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Geographically located in Provincia de la Rioja, Spain.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 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. p. 561. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. 1 2 Moreno-Azanza, M., J.I. Canudo, and J.M. Gasca. (2014) "Spheroolithid eggshells in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. Implications for eggshell evolution in ornithischian dinosaurs." Cretaceous Research 51: 75-87.


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