Piedrahita de Muñó Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range:
Late Berriasian-
mid-Valanginian ~ | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Pedroso/ Urbión Group |
Underlies | Hortigüela Formation |
Overlies | hiatus with Villar del Arzobispo Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | 42°00′N 3°12′W / 42.0°N 3.2°W |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 33°06′N 7°42′E / 33.1°N 7.7°E |
Region | Burgos Province, Castile and León |
Country | ![]() |
Extent | Cameros Basin |
Type section | |
Named for | Piedrahita de Muñó |
The Piedrahita de Muñó Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation of the Cameros Basin 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]
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
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. .