Nuevos restos de dinosaurios ornitópodos de la cantera de Mas de la Parreta (Morella) en el XVII Annual Meeting de la EAVP

Desde su ubicación en la Cantera del Mas de la Parreta, llegó al XVII EAVP Annual Meeting la presentación del yacimiento CMP-5 localizado en el Mas de Sabaté en Morella. A pesar de que se continua con la preparación del material extraídos de este importante yacimiento, el análisis preliminar de los restos localizados indican la presencia de restos asignables a tiburones, peces, tortugas, cocodrilos, pterosaurios y dinosaurios. En este encuentro se han presentado estos resultados preliminares. Aquí va el resumen:

Mas de la Parreta quarry (CMP), located at the southwest of the locality of Morella (Castellón province, Spain), is a richly fossiliferous area of the Arcillas de Morella Formation that commonly yields vertebrate fossils. Seventeen vertebrate fossil sites have been documented so far. Nowadays, the identified vertebrate fauna includes sharks, bony fishes, plesiosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and dinosaurs. Among this diverse fauna highlights the discovery of more than 2.000 styracosternan ornithopod dinosaur remains, including some partial skeletons of distinct medium to large individuals. We provide information on CMP-MS-05 site, located at Mas de Sabaté area in the Mas de la Parreta quarry. The vertebrate fauna identified in CMP-MS-05 site includes semionotiform fishes, turtles, non- eusuchian neosuchian crocodiles, pterosaurs and dinosaurs. The fossil accumulation includes teeth of spinosaurid and allosauroid theropods, and remains of, at least, three styracosternan individuals. Two of these partial skeletons, including skull material, belong to a large-sized and robust styracosternan ornithopod that shares many similarities with Iguanodon bernissartensis. The third partial skeleton represents a medium, lightly built styracosternan dinosaur, similar in body proportions to Morelladon beltrani.

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• Imagen: José Miguel Gasulla en un momento de su interlocución en una de las sesiones de científicas del congreso.
• Referencia: J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, I. Narváez J. L. Sanz & F. Ortega. A new styracosternan ornithopod-bearing fossil site from the upper Barremian Morella Formation in Morella (Spain). XVII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Abstract Book, 44.