Archosaurian teeth (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of BuÒol (Valencia province, E Spain)

Abstract

[EN] Five isolated archosaurian teeth from Valencia province (eastern Spain) are studied in this work. They have been found in the ¿Cantera CarcalÌnª site, an outcrop of the marine Higueruelas Formation (Tithonian) in the vicinity of BuÒol town. They represent the first direct evidence of tetrapods in this formation, in which, up to the moment, only dinosaur tracks had been found in a locality of the adjacent Teruel province. Four of the teeth pertain to crocodyliforms, three to indeterminate crocodyliforms and another to a teleosaurid identified as cf. Machimosaurus sp., a taxon already known in the Kimmeridgian of the Iberian Peninsula (Asturias and Portugal). The fifth tooth is assigned to a theropod dinosaur, probably an allosauroid.El equipo de investigación del MUJA está subvencionado por el Protocolo de colaboración CN-04-226 entre la Consejería de Cultura y Turismo del Principado de Asturias y la Universidad de Oviedo. Este trabajo es una contribución a los proyectos CGL2007-62469/BTE(J.I.R-O) y CGL2007-64061/BTE (X.P.S,J.C.) del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, y del grupo de investigación del Gobierno Vasco GIC07/14-361 (X.P.S.).Agradecemos a José Ignacio Canudo (Universidad de Zaragoza) y Francisco Ortega (UNED) la revisión crítica del manuscritoRuiz-Omeñaca, JI.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Company Rodríguez, J.; Belinchón, M. (2010). Dientes de arcosaurios (Crocodyliformes, Theropoda) del Jurásico Superior de Buñol (Valencia). Geogaceta. 48:35-38. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/150323S35384

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