Higuerueles Formation

Higueruelas Formation Stratigraphic range: Tithonian ~150–146 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Villar del Arzobispo Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Location
Coordinates	40°42′N 0°54′W / 40.7°N 0.9°W / 40.7; -0.9Coordinates: 40°42′N 0°54′W / 40.7°N 0.9°W / 40.7; -0.9
Approximate paleocoordinates	31°36′N 8°30′E / 31.6°N 8.5°E / 31.6; 8.5
Region	Teruel, Valencia
Country	Spain
Extent
Higuerueles Formation (Spain)

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]

Fossil content[]

The following fossils were reported from the formation:^[1]

• Machimosaurus sp.
• ?Allosauroidea indet.
• Crocodyliformes indet.

Ichnofossils

• Theropoda indet.

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
Sources

See also[]

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
    • Sauropod tracks

References[]

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). 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). 30. 115–118.
• Bataller, J.B. 1960. Los vertebrados del Cretácico Español (The vertebrates from the Spanish Cretaceous). 60. 141–164.