RT Journal Article
T1 El fósil de plesiosaurio (Sauropterygia) más antiguo de la Península Ibérica: una vértebra procedente del Hettangiense-Sinemuriense de Asturias
T1 The oldest plesiosaur fossil (Sauropterygia) from the Iberian Peninsula: a vertebra from the Hettangian-Sinemurianof Asturias, Northern Spain
A1 Ruiz Omeñaca, José Ignacio
A1 Bardet, Nathalie
A1 Piñuela, Laura
A1 García Ramos, José Carlos
A1 Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier
AB In this paper, a pectoral vertebra of a plesiosaur is described. It comes from an exposure of the uppermember of the Gijón Formation (lower Hettangian - basal Upper Sinemurian) in the coastal cliffs of theVillar hamlet in the Villaviciosa municipality (Asturias, Northern Spain). The specimen is not diagnosticfurther away from the superfamily level, and is assigned to a Plesiosauroidea indet. The Villar vertebra isthe first vertebrate remain from the Gijón Formation and the oldest Mesozoic vertebrate fossil found inAsturias. Moreover, it represents currently the oldest record of plesiosaurs from the Iberian Peninsula,predating another indeterminate plesiosauroid specimen from the basalmost Pliensbachian of Villaviciosa(Asturias). It also represents the westernmost occurrence of Early Liassic plesiosaurs in the Tethys Ocean
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/8034
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/8034
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026