Piedrahita de Muñó Formation

Piedrahita de Muñó Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Berriasian-mid-Valanginian ~140–136 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	/Urbión Group
Underlies
Overlies	hiatus with Villar del Arzobispo Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	42°00′N 3°12′W / 42.0°N 3.2°W / 42.0; -3.2Coordinates: 42°00′N 3°12′W / 42.0°N 3.2°W / 42.0; -3.2
Approximate paleocoordinates	33°06′N 7°42′E / 33.1°N 7.7°E / 33.1; 7.7
Region	Burgos Province, Castile and León
Country	Spain
Extent
Type section
Named for	Piedrahita de Muñó
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The Piedrahita de Muñó Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation of the in northern Spain.^[1] Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.^[2] Also fossils of Lepidotes sp., Polacanthus sp. and Testudines indet. were found in the formation.^[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
Sources

See also[]

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

References[]

Bibliography[]

• 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

Further reading[]

• X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Meijide, F. Torcida, J. Welle, C. Fuentes, L. A. Izquierdo, D. Montero, G. Pérez, and V. Urién. 1999. Espinas dermicas del dinosaurio anquilosaurio Polacanthus en las facies Weald de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, España) [Dermal spines of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Polacanthus in the Weald facies of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, Spain)]. Estudios Geológicos 55:267-272
• Platt, N.H., and C.A. Meyer. 1991. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Spain: their sedimentological and palaeoecological context. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 86. 321-333.