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A New Lower Cretaceous Vertebrate Bonebed Near Ariño (Teruel, Aragón, Spain); Found and Managed in a Joint Collaboration Between a Mining Company and a Palaeontological Park

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Systematic prospecting in the Oliete Geological Sub-basin (Aragonese Branch of the Iberian Range), specifically at an open-pit mine in the Escucha Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in Ariño (Teruel, Spain), has revealed a fossiliferous layer with abundant vertebrate and other early Albian fossils. The fossiliferous stratigraphic level coincides with the floor of the mining operations, i.e. the bonebed is just below the lowest layer of coal mined for industrial purposes. Coal mining in this area of Teruel province has occurred for over a century and intense mining activity is at the present time a major economic force in the region. The new discoveries at this Mesozoic vertebrate locality presented in this paper document the most important Albian dinosaur site identified in Europe. This important discovery is a direct result of mining activity, without which these important data would have remained buried hundreds of metres underground. These discoveries below the coal seams at Ariño fill out the Lower Cretaceous terrestrial record of Europe and expand upon the palaeogeographic context by which Europe may be compared against correlative dinosaur faunas in North America, Asia and North Africa.

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Acknowledgments

We very kindly appreciate the invaluable collaboration of Ángel Luengo (President of SAMCA Group), as well as Rubén Orera, Justo Martín and Luis Simón (SAMCA Group). This study is part of the palaeontology research projects of Departamento de Educación, Universidad, Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de Aragón and have been supported by its Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural (exp. 201/2010, 201/10-2011), DINOSARAGÓN CGL2009-07792 R&D project (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and FEDER Funds), FOCONTUR (Grupo de Investigación Consolidado E-62, Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Universidad, Gobierno de Aragón), Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (AP2008-00846), Instituto Aragonés de Fomento, Fundación SAMCA, and Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis. SEM photography: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). We acknowledge the fruitful comments of Dr. Vanda Faria dos Santos and an anonymous reviewer, as well as the editorial advice of Dr. José Brilha, Martha Hayden, Don DeBlieux, Mike Lowe, and Vito Fonte.

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    Luis Alcalá, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Ana González, Daniel Ayala, Alberto Cobos, Rafael Royo-Torres, Francisco Gascó & Maria Dolores Pesquero

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Alcalá, L., Espílez, E., Mampel, L. et al. A New Lower Cretaceous Vertebrate Bonebed Near Ariño (Teruel, Aragón, Spain); Found and Managed in a Joint Collaboration Between a Mining Company and a Palaeontological Park. Geoheritage 4, 275–286 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-012-0068-y

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