Taphonomy and palaeoecology in the upper Barremian of the SW Iberian chain (Spain): A model to compare taxonomy and diversity of biotas from different coeval basins

Buscalioni, Ángela Delgado; Martı́n-Closas, Carles; Delvene, Graciela; Munt, Martin; Barral, Abel; Tinner-Grellet, Gerald; Gómez, Bernard; Daviero‐Gomez, Véronique; Chamero, Beatriz

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.009

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“…Taken together, our results suggest that among these Early Cretaceous frogs, there were some jumpers and swimmers having more extreme limb proportions than extant 'archeobatrachian' species, but also species having more generalized limb proportions with varying degrees of jumping and swimming abilities, typical of aquatic and semiaquatic frogs (Emerson, 1978(Emerson, , 1988Soliz et al, 2017). Interestingly, this ecomorphological structure with good representation of aquatic or likely semiaquatic jumping and swimming species matches the expectation given that the depositional environments might have been part of a large subtropical wetland system extending across northeastern Iberia (Buscalioni et al, 2018;Buscalioni and Poyato-Ariza, 2016). It is most similar in ecomorphological structure to that from Pagdanan Range on the Philippine archipelago among the extant wetland assemblages surveyed (Fig.…”

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“…Outcrops of Barremian age scattered along the Iberian and Montsec Ranges in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula have documented a diverse continental biota that also includes anurans, dwellers of a large wetland system (e.g., Báez and Gómez, 2019;Buscalioni et al, 2018;Gomez et al, 2015). This large wetland system of the Iberian Plate, including a variety of freshwater environments, was at the time part of the western Tethys realm and developed under a subtropical climate at paleolatitudes around 30 • N (Buscalioni and Poyato-Ariza, 2016; Fig.…”

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High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia

Gómez

Lires

2019

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High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia

Gómez

Lires

2019

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“…In the Southwestern paleogeographic domain, isolated, partial anuran bones occur in outcrops of the upper Barremian Tragacete Formation in the Buenache de la Sierra small depocenter ( Fig. 1) within the Serranía de Cuenca Basin (El Inglés Quarry, Buscalioni et al 2008, 2018.…”

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Barremian anurans of the Iberian Peninsula: new insights into their taxonomic diversity

Báez¹

2021

Comptes Rendus Palevol

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The Barremian continental successions of the Iberian Peninsula have yielded numerous remains of anurans. Some of these finds consist of fragmentary bones whereas others furnish more complete evidence on the skeletal morphology and proportions of the represented taxa. Notwithstanding the foregoing, most of these records have been ascribed either to the relatively basal extant costatan clade or to the poorly known extinct genus Eodiscoglossus Villalta, 1954 based on insufficient data. Recent revisions of some of these materials have demonstrated the presence of traits presumably plesiomorphic and unknown in extant costatans, thereby casting doubts on their phylogenetic placements. Herein two specimens from the upper Barremian Las Hoyas Konservat-lagerstätte are thoroughly described and compared, providing evidence of additional anuran taxa in this site. One of these specimens, initially reported as cf. Eodiscoglossus, is referred to Wealdenbatrachus Fey, 1988, a genus already described in the coeval fossil site of Uña. Another specimen consisting of a partial postcranial skeleton is documented by a latex-rubber cast and a photograph; it represents a new taxon whose phylogenetic position remains uncertain due to the incompleteness of the available evidence. Comments on a third specimen that might belong to another taxon are included, although its detailed description awaits its full preparation. The overview of the Barremian taxa currently recognized from Iberia reveals the co-occurrence of taxa of different sizes, body proportions, and lifestyles, suggesting some ecological partitioning in consonance with the heterogeneous habitats represented in the yielding fossil sites.

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“…Watsoniocladus consists of at least 6 species collected from the Early Jurassic -Albian of England, France, Germany, Israel, Iran, Japan, Spain and USA (e.g. Watson and Alvin 1999, Srinivasan 1995, Néraudeau et al 2012, Buscalioni et al 2018. Due to presence of elongate leaves and papillae borne rather outside then inside the stomatal pits, we compare the studied material with W. virginensis V. SRINIV.…”

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“…The mesofossil fl ora from Catefi ca was fi rst documented by Friis et al (1994) from light cross-bedded sands with some darker clay beds rich in plant fragments, and is mostly known for its diversity of angiosperm remains, but also contains an astonishing variety of gymnosperms, mainly conifers (e.g. Friis et al 1994, 2010, 2015a, b, 2018, Mendes et al 2017.…”

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Some Conifers from The Early Cretaceous (Late Aptian – Early Albian) of Catefica, Lusitanian Basin, Western Portugal

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Dinis²,

Kvaček³

2018

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Abstract Several mesofossil floras discovered in the Early Cretaceous rocks from the Lusitanian Basin of western Portugal comprise numerous well-preserved conifer remains. Here we report the occurrence of four conifer types in the mesofossil flora from the Catefi ca locality, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras in the Estremadura region on the western Portuguese Basin. The specimens were recovered from rocks belonging to the Almargem Formation, interpreted to be of late Aptian - early Albian age. It includes three Cheirolepidiaceae genera Frenelopsis SCHENK, Pseudofrenelopsis NATH. and Watsoniocladus V.SRINIV., and one conifer twig of Pagiophyllum-type. These conifers, which co-occurred in the same depositional bed with a well-diversified early angiosperm assemblage including flowers, seeds, fruits and dispersed stamens with pollen in situ, provide new insights into Early Cretaceous palaeoecology.

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Taphonomy and palaeoecology in the upper Barremian of the SW Iberian chain (Spain): A model to compare taxonomy and diversity of biotas from different coeval basins

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High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia

High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia

Barremian anurans of the Iberian Peninsula: new insights into their taxonomic diversity

Some Conifers from The Early Cretaceous (Late Aptian – Early Albian) of Catefica, Lusitanian Basin, Western Portugal

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