Alacón Formation

Alacón Formation Stratigraphic range: Latest Barremian ~121–120 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Forcall Formation
Overlies	Blesa Formation
Area	Ariño
Location
Coordinates	41°06′N 0°36′W / 41.1°N 0.6°W / 41.1; -0.6Coordinates: 41°06′N 0°36′W / 41.1°N 0.6°W / 41.1; -0.6
Approximate paleocoordinates	30°54′N 9°36′E / 30.9°N 9.6°E / 30.9; 9.6
Region	Oliete, Aragón
Country	Spain
Extent
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The Alacón Formation is a geologic formation in Spain in which dinosaur tracks attributed to sauropods and Iguanodontidae have been found.^[1]

Correlation[]

Early Cretaceous stratigraphy of Iberia

Ma	Age	Paleomap \ Basins		Olanyà								Lusitanian
100	Cenomanian											Caranguejeira
125	Albian		-
			Monte Grande		Escucha		Escucha
			-
	Aptian		-		- Castrillo
					En Gp. -	Morella/			Morella
			-		En Gp. -	Forcall					Upper Bedoulian
	Barremian					Xert	Alacón	Xert		Huérguina
						Artoles				Collado		Papo Seco
				Rúbies	Tera Gp. -	Alacón/Blesa	Blesa	Camarillas
150	Hauterivian				Ur Gp. -			Castellar	Tera Gp. -
							hiatus
	Valanginian				Ur Gp. -				-
					-				- Piedrahita
	Berriasian		-			hiatus
					- Rupelo			Arzobispo	hiatus
					On Gp. -
	Tithonian		Lastres		Tera Gp. -		Higuereles			Tera Gp. -		Lourinhã
									Arzobispo
Legend		Major fossiliferous, oofossiliferous, ichnofossiliferous, coproliferous, minor formation
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Further reading[]

• 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
• J. L. Barco, J. I. Canudo, J. I. Ruiz Omeñaca and R. Royo Torres. 1999. Bones, teeth and tracks: about sauropod dinosaur remains from Aragón (northeastern Spain). In J. I. Canudo & G. Cuenca-Bescós (eds.), IV European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology, Albarracin, Spain. Universidad de Zaragoza 22-23