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La Pedrera de Rúbies

Description

Source: Wikipédia

The La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called as La Pedrera de Meià is an Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Barremian geologic formation in Catalonia, Spain. The formation crops out in the area of the Montsec in the Organyà Basin. At the La Pedrera de Meià locality, the formation consists of rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones that formed in the distal areas of a large, shallow coastal lake. It is noted for the exceptional preservation of articulated small vertebrates and insects, similar to that of the Solnhofen Limestone.

Découvertes

Source: The Paleobiology Database

Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 1
  • drapeau Espagne La Pedrera de Meià, El Montsec : Cataluña - Lleida 28741 28742 55204 55386
  • "in the Spanish Serra de El Montsec (south-central Pyrenees, in the province of Lleida" (coordinate based on El Monsech). Noguerornis locality described as "La Pedrera de Meià" - it is unclear whether this is the same for everything in the list. Quarry near Rubies, Sta. Maria de Meià, Sierra del Mont−sec, Lleida Province, Spain
    • Avialae identifié comme Llerdopteryx viai n. gen. n. sp.

Publication(s)

La base comprend 4 publication(s).

Source: The Paleobiology Database

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