Tera Group

Tera Group
Tera Group
Stratigraphic range: Tithonian-Hauterivian; ~150–135 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geologic group
Sub-units	Magaña, Golmayo & Pinilla de los Moros Formations
Underlies	Oncala Group
Overlies	Jurassic
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone, claystone
Location
Coordinates	41°54′N 2°30′W / 41.9°N 2.5°W
Approximate paleocoordinates	33°18′N 8°00′E / 33.3°N 8.0°E
Region	Burgos Province
Country	Spain
Extent	Cameros Basin
Type section
Named for	Tera River
	Tera Group (Spain) Tera Group (Castile and León)

The Tera Group is a geological group in the Cameros Basin and Sierra de la Demanda in Burgos, Spain. The group contains several formations whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Fossil content edit

Euornithopoda indet^[1]
Iguanodon cf. fittoni^[1]

Correlation edit

Early Cretaceous stratigraphy of Iberia
Ma	Age	Paleomap \ Basins	Cantabrian	Olanyà	Cameros	Maestrazgo	Oliete	Galve	Morella	South Iberian	Pre-betic	Lusitanian
100	Cenomanian		La Cabana	Sopeira	Utrillas		Mosquerela					Caranguejeira
			Altamira		Utrillas
			Eguino
125	Albian		Ullaga - Balmaseda	Lluçà						Traiguera
			Monte Grande		Escucha		Escucha			Jijona
			Itxina - Miono		Escucha
	Aptian		Valmaseda - Tellamendi		Ol Gp. - Castrillo	Benassal		Benassal				Olhos
			Valmaseda - Tellamendi	Font	En Gp. - Leza	Morella/Oliete	Oliete	Villaroya	Morella	Capas Rojas		Almargem
			Patrocinio - Ernaga	Senyús	En Gp. - Jubela	Forcall				Villaroya	Upper Bedoulian	Figueira
	Barremian		Vega de Pas	Cabó	Abejar	Xert	Alacón	Xert		Huérguina	Upper Bedoulian	Assises
				Prada	Abejar	Artoles				Collado	Moutonianum	Papo Seco
				Rúbies	Tera Gp. - Golmayo	Alacón/Blesa	Blesa	Camarillas	Mirambel	Collado	Moutonianum	Papo Seco
150	Hauterivian				Ur Gp. - Pinilla	Llacova	Blesa	Castellar	Tera Gp. - Pinilla	Villares		Porto da Calada
						Llacova	hiatus			Villares
						Huerva			Gaita
	Valanginian		Villaro		Ur Gp. - Larriba				Ped Gp. - Hortigüela
					Ped Gp. - Hortigüela				Ped Gp. - Piedrahita
					Peñacoba			Galve		Miravetes
	Berriasian		Cab Gp. - Arcera		Valdeprado	hiatus		Alfambra		Miravetes
					TdL Gp. - Rupelo			Arzobispo	hiatus	Tollo
					On Gp. - Huérteles Sierra Matute			Arzobispo		Tollo
	Tithonian		Lastres		Tera Gp. - Magaña		Higuereles			Tera Gp. - Magaña		Lourinhã
					Tera Gp. - Magaña				Arzobispo
					Ágreda				Arzobispo
Legend		Major fossiliferous, oofossiliferous, ichnofossiliferous, coproliferous, minor formation
Sources

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 556-563

Bibliography edit

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

Further reading edit

C. Pascual Arribas and N. Hernández Medrano. 2015. Nuevas huellas de estegosáuridos en el Titoniense-Berriasiense de la Cuenca de Cameros (Formación Magaña) [New tracks of stegosaurids in the Tithonian-Berriasian of the Cameros Basin (Magaña Formation)]. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 28(2):15-27
F. Torcida Fernández Baldor. 2005. Los dinosaurios de Castilla y León [The dinosaurs of Castilla y León]. Patrimonio Histórico de Castilla y León 6(23):23-34
J. I. Ruiz Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269-312
F. Pérez Lorente. 2002. La distribución de yacimientos y de tipos de huellas de dinosaurios en la Cuenca de Cameroa (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, España) [The distribution of localities and types of dinosaur footprints in the Cameros Basin (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, Spain)]. Zubia Monográfico 14:191-210

[cretaceousdistribution-1] Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 556-563

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