New remains of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Polacanthus from the Lower Cretaceous of Soria, Spain

La Cantalera: an exceptional window onto the vertebrate biodiversity of the Hauterivian-Barremian transition in the Iberian Peninsula

“…The absence of a cingulum is a derived character shown by certain ankylosaurids, making it possible to associate the thyreophorans from La Cantalera with Gastonia, a polacanthine (or polacanthid) from the Barremian of the USA (Kirkland, 1998). The dermal plates display morphology similar to that described for the remains of Polacanthus from the Iberian Peninsula (Pereda- Suberbiola et al, 2007). The ankylosaurian from La Cantalera confirms the presence of a taxon close to the English genus Polacanthus, which could be Ankylosauridae, Polacanthinae or Polacanthidae (according to the classification used), but in any case different from Nodosauridae on account of the absent cingulum in the teeth .…”

Larachelus morla, gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the little-known European Early Cretaceous record of stem cryptodiran turtles

“…1996;Escaso et al 2005;Torcida Fernández-Baldor 2006;Pereda-Suberbiola et al 2007;Sánchez-Hernández et al 2007;Buscalioni et al 2008;Gasulla et al 2009Gasulla et al , 2011Mateus et al 2011). Holtz et al (2004) proposed that the Greater Wealden, comprising localities of the Lower Cretaceous of England and continental Europe, as well as comparable faunas of southern and central Europe, western North America, and Africa, share a common composition of dinosaur faunas.…”

Elementos de la Armadura Dérmica del Dinosaurio AnquilosaurioPolacanthusOwen, 1865, en el Cretácico Inferior de Morella (Castellón, España)

“…1996;Escaso et al 2005;Torcida Fernández-Baldor 2006;Pereda-Suberbiola et al 2007;Sánchez-Hernández et al 2007;Buscalioni et al 2008;Gasulla et al 2009Gasulla et al , 2011Mateus et al 2011). Holtz et al (2004) proposed that the Greater Wealden, comprising localities of the Lower Cretaceous of England and continental Europe, as well as comparable faunas of southern and central Europe, western North America, and Africa, share a common composition of dinosaur faunas.…”