Tera Group
Geological group in Spain
Tera Group | |
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Stratigraphic range: Tithonian-Hauterivian ~150–135 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
Type | Geologic group |
Sub-units | Magaña, Golmayo & Pinilla de los Moros Formations |
Underlies | Oncala Group |
Overlies | Jurassic |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone, claystone |
Location | |
Coordinates | Tera Group (Spain) Show map of SpainTera Group (Castile and León) Show map of Castile and León |
The Tera Group is a geological group in the Cameros Basin and Sierra de la Demanda in Burgos, Spain. The group contains several formations whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Fossil content
- Euornithopoda indet[1]
- Iguanodon cf. fittoni[1]
Correlation
Ma | Age | Paleomap \ Basins | Cantabrian | Olanyà | Cameros | Maestrazgo | Oliete | Galve | Morella | South Iberian | Pre-betic | Lusitanian | ||
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100 | Cenomanian | La Cabana | Sopeira | Utrillas | Mosquerela | Caranguejeira | ||||||||
Altamira | Utrillas | |||||||||||||
Eguino | ||||||||||||||
125 | Albian | Ullaga - Balmaseda | Lluçà | Traiguera | ||||||||||
Monte Grande | Escucha | Escucha | Jijona | |||||||||||
Itxina - Miono | ||||||||||||||
Aptian | Valmaseda - Tellamendi | Ol Gp. - Castrillo | Benassal | Benassal | Olhos | |||||||||
Font | En Gp. - Leza | Morella/Oliete | Oliete | Villaroya | Morella | Capas Rojas | Almargem | |||||||
Patrocinio - Ernaga | Senyús | En Gp. - Jubela | Forcall | Villaroya | Upper Bedoulian | Figueira | ||||||||
Barremian | Vega de Pas | Cabó | Abejar | Xert | Alacón | Xert | Huérguina | Assises | ||||||
Prada | Artoles | Collado | Moutonianum | Papo Seco | ||||||||||
Rúbies | Tera Gp. - Golmayo | Alacón/Blesa | Blesa | Camarillas | Mirambel | |||||||||
150 | Hauterivian | Ur Gp. - Pinilla | Llacova | Castellar | Tera Gp. - Pinilla | Villares | Porto da Calada | |||||||
hiatus | ||||||||||||||
Huerva | Gaita | |||||||||||||
Valanginian | Villaro | Ur Gp. - Larriba | Ped Gp. - Hortigüela | |||||||||||
Ped Gp. - Hortigüela | Ped Gp. - Piedrahita | |||||||||||||
Peñacoba | Galve | Miravetes | ||||||||||||
Berriasian | Cab Gp. - Arcera | Valdeprado | hiatus | Alfambra | ||||||||||
TdL Gp. - Rupelo | Arzobispo | hiatus | Tollo | |||||||||||
On Gp. - Huérteles Sierra Matute | ||||||||||||||
Tithonian | Lastres | Tera Gp. - Magaña | Higuereles | Tera Gp. - Magaña | Lourinhã | |||||||||
Arzobispo | ||||||||||||||
Ágreda | ||||||||||||||
Legend | Major fossiliferous, oofossiliferous, ichnofossiliferous, coproliferous, minor formation | |||||||||||||
Sources |
See also
References
- ^ a b c Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 556-563
Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
Further reading
- C. Pascual Arribas and N. Hernández Medrano. 2015. Nuevas huellas de estegosáuridos en el Titoniense-Berriasiense de la Cuenca de Cameros (Formación Magaña) [New tracks of stegosaurids in the Tithonian-Berriasian of the Cameros Basin (Magaña Formation)]. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 28(2):15-27
- F. Torcida Fernández Baldor. 2005. Los dinosaurios de Castilla y León [The dinosaurs of Castilla y León]. Patrimonio Histórico de Castilla y León 6(23):23-34
- J. I. Ruiz Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269–312
- F. Pérez Lorente. 2002. La distribución de yacimientos y de tipos de huellas de dinosaurios en la Cuenca de Cameroa (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, España) [The distribution of localities and types of dinosaur footprints in the Cameros Basin (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, Spain)]. Zubia Monográfico 14:191-210