Towards an actualistic view of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte paleoenvironment: A new hypothesis as an Early Cretaceous (Aptian) equatorial and semi-arid wetland

AC Ribeiro, GC Ribeiro, FG Varejão, LD Battirola… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
An alternative hypothesis concerning the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental
depositional conditions of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte (CKL), Crato Formation, Aptian …

Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous tectono-sedimentary evolution of the southwestern Iberian Basin (central Spain): Major palaeogeographical changes in the …

M Aurell, M Fregenal-Martínez, B Bádenas… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous tectono-sedimentary evolution of the
southwestern part of the intraplate Iberian Basin (Spain) was mostly controlled by the Alto …

The role of microbial mats in the exquisite preservation of Aptian insect fossils from the Crato Lagerstätte, Brazil

JJ Dias, I de Souza Carvalho - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The insect fossils recorded in the lithographic limestones of the Crato Formation (Aptian of
the Araripe Basin, Brazil) have a high degree of morphological fidelity of external and …

The Mesozoic lacustrine revolution

LA Buatois, CC Labandeira, MG Mángano… - The Trace-Fossil Record …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Mesozoic Lacustrine Revolution (MLR) represents a significant evolutionary
event for continental ecosystems. Evidence from the ichnologic and body-fossil records …

Helminth eggs from early cretaceous faeces

S Barrios-de Pedro, A Osuna, ÁD Buscalioni - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The exceptional fossil site of Las Hoyas (upper Barremian, Cuenca, Spain) yields abundant
small to medium vertebrate coprolites, hindering the search for parasites. We studied the …

The Las Hoyas Lagerstätte: a palaeontological view of an Early Cretaceous wetland

J Marugán-Lobón, H Martín-Abad… - Journal of the …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain) represents a unique Early Cretaceous (Barremian) fossil biota
of a wetland. The site has yielded a particularly diverse assemblage of> 20 000 plant and …

A theropod trackway providing evidence of a pathological foot from the exceptional locality of Las Hoyas (upper Barremian, Serranía de Cuenca, Spain)

CM Herrera-Castillo, JJ Moratalla, Z Belaústegui… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We describe a trackway (LH-Mg-10-16) occurring in laminated carbonated limestones of the
Las Hoyas locality, Serranía de Cuenca, Spain. It is unmistakably a large theropod dinosaur …

Tetrapodophis amplectus is not a snake: re-assessment of the osteology, phylogeny and functional morphology of an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard

MW Caldwell, TR Simões, A Palci… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The origin of snakes remains one of the most contentious evolutionary transitions in
vertebrate evolution. The discovery of snake fossils with well-formed hind limbs provided …

Food web reconstruction through isotopic compositions of fossil faeces: insights into the ecology of a late Barremian freshwater ecosystem (Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain …

S Barrios-de Pedro, KM Rogers, P Alcorlo… - Cretaceous …, 2020 - Elsevier
A total of 54 coprolites with different morphologies from the Konservat-Lagerstätte of Las
Hoyas (upper Barremian, Cuenca, Spain) were analysed for stable isotopes (δ 15 N and δ …

The late Barremian ecosystem of Las Hoyas sustained by fishes and shrimps as inferred from coprofabrics

S Barrios-de Pedro, K Chin, ÁD Buscalioni - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Las Hoyas, a locality of the La Huérguina Formation in the southwestern Iberia Basin
(Cuenca province, Spain), is a well-known late Barremian Konservat-Lagerstätte highly rich …