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Camarillas Formation, the Glossary

The Camarillas Formation is a geological formation in the Teruel Province of Aragón, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage).^[1]

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Geography of the Province of Teruel
Maestrazgo
Paleontology in Spain

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of paleontology and paleobiology.

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Aliaga, Aragon

Aliaga is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, eastern Spain.

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Aragon

Aragon (Spanish and Aragón; Aragó) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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The Artoles Formation is a geological formation in Teruel and La Rioja, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Camarillas Formation and Artoles Formation are Barremian Stage, Conglomerate formations, Cretaceous Spain, lower Cretaceous Series of Europe, Maestrazgo, paleontology in Spain and Sandstone formations.

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Astrodon

Astrodon (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atoposauridae

Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile-like archosaurs belonging to Neosuchia.

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Barremian

The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 125.77 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma (Historically, this stage was placed at 129.4 million to approximately 125 million years ago) It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series).

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Baryonychinae

Baryonychinae is an extinct clade or subfamily of spinosaurids from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Albian) of Britain, Portugal, and Niger.

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Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.

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Bernissartia

Bernissartia ('of Bernissart') is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived in the Early Cretaceous, around 130 million years ago. Camarillas Formation and Bernissartia are Cretaceous Spain.

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Camarasauridae

Camarasauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Camarillas

Camarillas is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.

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Camarillasaurus

Camarillasaurus (meaning "Camarillas lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Barremian) of Camarillas, Teruel Province, in what is now northeastern Spain. Camarillas Formation and Camarillasaurus are Cretaceous Spain.

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Carnosauria

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Cretaceous Research

Cretaceous Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.

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Cretalamna

Cretalamna is a genus of extinct otodontid shark that lived from the latest Early Cretaceous to Eocene epoch (about 103 to 46 million years ago).

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Crusafontia

Crusafontia is an extinct genus of mammal from the Cretaceous Camarillas, El Castellar and La Huérguina Formations of Spain. Camarillas Formation and Crusafontia are Cretaceous Spain.

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Dacentrurus

Dacentrurus (meaning "tail full of points"), originally known as Omosaurus, is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic and perhaps Early Cretaceous (154 - 140 mya) of Europe.

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Depositional environment

In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Egg fossil

Egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals.

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El Castellar Formation

The El Castellar Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel, Spain whose strata date back to the possibly the Valanginian to the Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Camarillas Formation and El Castellar Formation are Cretaceous Spain, lower Cretaceous Series of Europe, Maestrazgo and paleontology in Spain.

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Elongatoolithidae is an oofamily of fossil eggs, representing the eggs of oviraptorosaurs (with the exception of the avian Ornitholithus).

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Eobaatar

Eobaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia, Spain and England. Camarillas Formation and Eobaatar are Cretaceous Spain.

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Escucha Formation

The Escucha Formation is a geological formation in La Rioja and Teruel provinces of northeastern Spain whose strata date back to the late Aptian to middle Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Camarillas Formation and Escucha Formation are Cretaceous Spain, Deltaic deposits, geography of the Province of Teruel, lower Cretaceous Series of Europe, Maestrazgo, Mudstone formations, paleontology in Spain and Sandstone formations.

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Estudios Geológicos

Estudios Geológicos is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles and reviews in Earth Sciences.

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Eusauropoda

Eusauropoda (meaning "True Lizard Foot") is a derived clade of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fluvial sediment processes

In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.

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Fossil wood

Fossil wood, also known as fossilized tree, is wood that is preserved in the fossil record.

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Fossilworks

Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.

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Galve, Teruel

Galve is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.

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Galveodon

Galveodon is an extinct mammal of the Lower Cretaceous. Camarillas Formation and Galveodon are Cretaceous Spain.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Gideonmantellia

Gideonmantellia is an extinct genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage) Camarillas Formation of Galve, Province of Teruel, Spain. Camarillas Formation and Gideonmantellia are Cretaceous Spain.

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Graben

In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

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Guegoolithus

Guegoolithus is an oogenus of fossil egg from the early Cretaceous of Spain. Camarillas Formation and Guegoolithus are Cretaceous Spain.

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Half-graben

A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.

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Helochelydridae

The Helochelydridae are an extinct family of stem-turtles known from fossils found in North America and Europe spanning the Early to Late Cretaceous.

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Heterodontosauridae

Heterodontosauridae is a family of ornithischian dinosaurs that were likely among the most basal (primitive) members of the group.

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Higuerueles Formation

The Higueruelas (Spanish) or Higuerueles Formation (Catalan) is a Tithonian geologic formation in the Teruel and Valencia provinces of Spain. Camarillas Formation and Higuerueles Formation are Maestrazgo and paleontology in Spain.

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Hypsilophodontidae

Hypsilophodontidae (or Hypsilophodontia) is a traditionally used family of ornithopod dinosaurs, generally considered invalid today.

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Iberian Plate

The Iberian Plate is a microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian Plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Briançonnais zone of the Penninic nappes of the Alps, and the portion of Morocco north of the High Atlas Mountains.

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Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur.

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Iguanodontidae

Iguanodontidae is a family of iguanodontians belonging to Styracosterna, a derived clade within Ankylopollexia.

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Istiodactylidae

Istiodactylidae is a small family of pterosaurs.

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La Huérguina Formation

The La Huérguina Formation (also known as the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation, La Huérguina Limestone Formation or as the Una Formation) is a geological formation in Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Camarillas Formation and La Huérguina Formation are Barremian Stage, Cretaceous Spain, Lacustrine deposits, lower Cretaceous Series of Europe and paleontology in Spain.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Lavocatia

Lavocatia is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain.

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Lepidotes

Lepidotes (from λεπιδωτός, 'covered with scales') (previously known as Lepidotus) is an extinct genus of Mesozoic ray-finned fish.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy.

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Lonchidion

Lonchidion is a genus of extinct hybodont in the family Lonchidiidae.

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Loxaulax

Loxaulax is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Camarillas Formation and Loxaulax are Cretaceous Spain.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mesoeucrocodylia

Mesoeucrocodylia is the clade that includes Eusuchia and crocodyliforms formerly placed in the paraphyletic group Mesosuchia.

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Meyasaurus

Meyasaurus is an extinct genus of Teiid lizard known from the Barremian of Spain and the Isle of Wight, UK. Camarillas Formation and Meyasaurus are Cretaceous Spain.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Neosuchia

Neosuchia is a clade within Mesoeucrocodylia that includes all modern extant crocodilians and their closest fossil relatives.

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Nodosauridae

Nodosauridae is a family of ankylosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods in what is now Asia, Europe, North America, and possibly South America.

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Ornithocheiridae

Ornithocheiridae (or ornithocheirids, meaning "bird hands") is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

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Paramacellodidae

Paramacellodidae is an extinct family of lizards that first appeared in the Middle Jurassic around 170 million years ago (Ma) and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 66 Ma.

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Paramacellodus

Paramacellodus is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizards from the Early Cretaceous of England and France, and the Late Jurassic of Portugal and the western United States.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Pleurosternidae

Pleurosternidae is an extinct family of freshwater turtles belonging to Paracryptodira.

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Province of Teruel

Teruel (Catalan: Terol) is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain.

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Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáktylos) "finger") is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.

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Rhinobatos

Rhinobatos is a genus of fish in the Rhinobatidae family.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spinosauridae

Spinosauridae (or spinosaurids) is a clade or family of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs comprising ten to seventeen known genera.

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Theriosuchus

Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid neosuchian from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Europe (Hungary & southern England), Southeast Asia (Thailand) and western North America (Wyoming), with fragmentary records from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in China, Morocco, and Scotland.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Trace fossil

A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (from ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself.

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Tremp Formation

The Tremp Formation (Formación de Tremp, Formació de Tremp), alternatively described as Tremp Group (Grupo Tremp), is a geological formation in the comarca Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Spain. Camarillas Formation and Tremp Formation are Conglomerate formations, Cretaceous Spain, Deltaic deposits, fluvial deposits, Lacustrine deposits, paleontology in Spain and Sandstone formations.

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Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.

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Unio (bivalve)

Unio is a genus of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

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Valdosaurus

Valdosaurus ("Weald Lizard") is a genus of bipedal herbivorous iguanodont ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in England, Spain and possibly also Romania. Camarillas Formation and Valdosaurus are Cretaceous Spain.

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Velociraptorinae

Velociraptorinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae.

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Villar del Arzobispo Formation

The Villar del Arzobispo Formation is a Late Jurassic to possibly Early Cretaceous geologic formation in eastern Spain. Camarillas Formation and Villar del Arzobispo Formation are Deltaic deposits, fluvial deposits, Maestrazgo, paleontology in Spain and Sandstone formations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarillas_Formation

, Istiodactylidae, La Huérguina Formation, Lake, Late Jurassic, Lavocatia, Lepidotes, Limestone, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Lithology, Lonchidion, Loxaulax, Mammal, Mesoeucrocodylia, Meyasaurus, Mudstone, Neosuchia, Nodosauridae, Ornithocheiridae, Paramacellodidae, Paramacellodus, Permian, Pleurosternidae, Province of Teruel, Pterodactyloidea, Rhinobatos, River delta, Sandstone, Snake, Spain, Spinosauridae, Theriosuchus, Theropoda, Trace fossil, Tremp Formation, Turtle, Unio (bivalve), Valdosaurus, Velociraptorinae, Villar del Arzobispo Formation.

Camarillas Formation, the Glossary

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See also

Geography of the Province of Teruel

Maestrazgo

Paleontology in Spain

References