2023
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2022-079
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The Las Hoyas Lagerstätte: a palaeontological view of an Early Cretaceous wetland

Abstract: Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain) represents a unique Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) fossil biota of a wetland. The site has yielded a particularly diverse assemblage of more than twenty thousand plant and animal fossils, many of which present unprecedented soft-tissue preservation, including microstructural details. Among the most significant discoveries are the oldest angiosperms, the smallest species of chondrichtians and squamates, new theropod dinosaurs, including several enantiornithine birds, the first European t… Show more

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“…The Early Cretaceous site of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain, upper Barremian, 126-129 My, Diéguez et al, 1995;Vicente & Martín-Closas, 2013) contains the most diverse and best-preserved avifauna of the Mesozoic of Europe, including the second oldest enantiornithine assemblage worldwide (Sanz et al, 2016;Benito & Olivé 2022). More than 30 years of palaeontological excavations at Las Hoyas resulted in the discovery of multiple avian skeletal remains and numerous isolated feathers (Sanz et al, 2016;Marugán-Lobón & Vullo, 2016;Knoll et al, 2018;Kaye et al, 2019). At this site, birds represent the third most abundant group of amniotes, surpassed only by crocodylomorphs and squamates .…”
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“…The Early Cretaceous site of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain, upper Barremian, 126-129 My, Diéguez et al, 1995;Vicente & Martín-Closas, 2013) contains the most diverse and best-preserved avifauna of the Mesozoic of Europe, including the second oldest enantiornithine assemblage worldwide (Sanz et al, 2016;Benito & Olivé 2022). More than 30 years of palaeontological excavations at Las Hoyas resulted in the discovery of multiple avian skeletal remains and numerous isolated feathers (Sanz et al, 2016;Marugán-Lobón & Vullo, 2016;Knoll et al, 2018;Kaye et al, 2019). At this site, birds represent the third most abundant group of amniotes, surpassed only by crocodylomorphs and squamates .…”
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confidence: 99%