Primeros registros foliares de la Formación Utrillas (Albiense superior) en la provincia de Teruel
- L.M. Sender 1
- J.J. Ferrer 1
- J.B. Diez 2
- 1 Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra (Paleontología), Universidad de Zaragoza
- 2 Departamento Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, Universidad de Vigo
ISSN: 1576-5172
Ano de publicación: 2004
Título do exemplar: VI CONGRESO GEOLÓGICO DE ESPAÑA, ZARAGOZA, 12-15 JULIO, 2004
Número: 6
Páxinas: 67-70
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Geotemas (Madrid)
Resumo
A new and diversal macroflora is described here for the Late Albian of Spain. The fossil plants have been recovered from the Utrillas Formation in the village of Utrillas (Teruel). This flora is composed by leaves of ferns, angiosperms, conifers, also with seeds and cones, and scales of bennettitals. These are the first remains of leaves and cones found in this geologic formation in the Norteastern of Spain, and they offer important information in relation to the palaeoecology and palaeoclimato-logy of the Late Albian in the Iberian Peninsula. Both taphonomic and taxonomic studies reveal warm and arid climate in the place and time of deposit of the Utrillas Formation in Teruel, where conifers and bennettitals grew in floodplains. Nevertheless climatic conditions were more humid nearby the streams and banks, so they allowed the development of angiosperms and ferns in this places and the accumulation of all the macrofloral remains.