Castrillo de la Reina Formation

Castrillo de la Reina Formation
Stratigraphic range: late Barremian-early Aptian
~125 Ma
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofOliván Group
UnderliesUtrillas & Escucha Formations
OverliesHortigüela & Leza Formations
Lithology
PrimaryClaystone
OtherSandstone
Location
Coordinates42°00′N 3°18′W / 42.0°N 3.3°W / 42.0; -3.3
Approximate paleocoordinates32°36′N 8°12′E / 32.6°N 8.2°E / 32.6; 8.2
RegionCastile and León
Country Spain
ExtentCameros Basin
Castrillo de la Reina Formation is located in Spain
Castrillo de la Reina Formation
Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Spain)

The Castrillo de la Reina Formation is a geological formation in Spain. It is late Barremian to early Aptian in age. It interpreted as a fluvial deposit. It primarily consists of red clay, with ribbon shaped sandstone channel fills. The rebbachisaurid dinosaur Demandasaurus occurs in the formation,[1] alongside somphospondylan Europatitan[2] as well as indeterminate small ornithopods, iguanodonts (including members of the Hadrosauriformes[3]) and spinosaurids, the earliest known stem-rhabdodontid (indeterminate)[4] and the lizard Arcanosaurus.[5]

  1. ^ Fernández-Baldor, Fidel Torcida; Canudo, José Ignacio; Huerta, Pedro; Montero, Diego; Suberbiola, Xabier Pereda; Salgado, Leonardo (September 2011). "Demandasaurus darwini, a New Rebbachisaurid Sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (3): 535–552. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0003. ISSN 0567-7920.
  2. ^ Torcida Fernández-Baldor, Fidel; Canudo, José Ignacio; Huerta, Pedro; Moreno-Azanza, Miguel; Montero, Diego (2017-06-27). "Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from the lower Cretaceous of Iberia in the initial radiation of somphospondylans in Laurasia". PeerJ. 5: e3409. doi:10.7717/peerj.3409. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5490465. PMID 28674644.
  3. ^ Escanero-Aguilar, D.; Torcida Fernández-Baldor, F.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Huerta, P. (2024-04-03). "Skull material of an early cretaceous hadrosauriform dinosaur (Ornithopoda) from Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, Spain)". Journal of Iberian Geology. 50 (1): 67–82. Bibcode:2024JIbG...50...67E. doi:10.1007/s41513-023-00227-5. ISSN 1698-6180.
  4. ^ Dieudonné, Paul-Emile; Tortosa, Thierry; Torcida Fernández-Baldor, Fidel; Canudo, José Ignacio; Díaz-Martínez, Ignacio (2016-06-22). Farke, Andrew A. (ed.). "An Unexpected Early Rhabdodontid from Europe (Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes, Burgos Province, Spain) and a Re-Examination of Basal Iguanodontian Relationships". PLOS ONE. 11 (6): e0156251. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1156251D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156251. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4917257. PMID 27333279.
  5. ^ Houssaye, Alexandra; Rage, Jean-Claude; Torcida Fernández-Baldor, Fidel; Huerta, Pedro; Bardet, Nathalie; Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier (April 2013). "A new varanoid squamate from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian–Aptian) of Burgos, Spain". Cretaceous Research. 41: 127–135. Bibcode:2013CrRes..41..127H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.11.005.