RT Journal Article T1 Juan Vilanova y Piera (1821-1893) y la primera tortuga hallada en el Mesozoico español T1 Juan Vilanova y Piera (1821-1893) and the first turtle found in the Spanish Mesozoic A1 Pérez García, Adán A1 Ortega, Francisco AB MNCN 59511 is a natural inner cast of the caparace of a Pancryptodiran turtle from the LowerCretaceous of Morella (Castellón), whose discovery was attributed to José Royo y Gómez. However,information available at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid) shows that the fossil wasactually collected in the second half of the nineteenth century by Juan Vilanova y Piera, constituting thefirst known discovery of a turtle in the Spanish Mesozoic YR 2009 FD 2009 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7974 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7974 LA spa DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 1 jun 2026