Research paper

Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous freshwater bivalves from Turiasaurus riodevensis bearing strata of Teruel (Spain)

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GRACIELA DELVENE
Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, c/ Ríos Rosas, 23, E-28003 Madrid, Spain. g.delvene@igme.es
Corresponding author

MARTIN MUNT
Dept. of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom. m.munt@nhm.ac.uk

RAFAEL ROYO-TORRES
Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Avda. Sagunto s/n, E-44002 Teruel, Spain. royo@dinopolis.com

ALBERTO COBOS
Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Avda. Sagunto s/n, E-44002 Teruel, Spain. cobos@dinopolis.com

LUIS ALCALÁ
Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Avda. Sagunto s/n, E-44002 Teruel, Spain. alcala@dinopolis.com

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ABSTRACT

Three freshwater bivalve taxa are described from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of Riodeva, Teruel, Spain. The stratigraphic range of the large and geographically widely distributed bivalve Margaritifera, previously recorded from the Early Cretaceous of Spain and southern England, is recognised to extend back probably into the Late Jurassic. This new record extends the palaeogeographic and temporal distribution of the family Margaritiferidae in Europe.

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Keywords: Margaritiferidae, Tithonian-Berriasian, Riodeva (Teruel), Europe.

How to cite:  Delvene, G., Munt, M., Royo-Torres, R., Cobos, A. & Alcalá, L. 2013. Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous freshwater bivalves from Turiasaurus riodevensis bearing strata of Teruel (Spain). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 28 (2), 161-172.

Received 12 March 2013, Accepted 23 April 2013, Published 31 December 2013

https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.28.2.17850

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