The fossil vertebrates from Lano (Basque Country, Spain); new evidence on the composition and affinities of the Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Europe |
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| Authors: | H Astibia E Buffetaut AD Buscalioni H Cappetta C Corral R Estes F Garcia-Garmilla JJ Jaeger E Jimenez-Fuentes J Le Loeuff JM Mazin X Orue-Etxebarria J Pereda-Suberbiola JE Powell JC Rage J Rodriguez-Lazaro JL Sanz H Tong |
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| Affiliation: | Seccion de Geologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), Apdo 644, 48080 Bilbao, Euskadi.;CNRS, Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébrés, UniversitéParis VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.;Unidad de Paleontologia, Departamento Zoologia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.;Laboratoire de Paléontologie (U.A. 327 du CNRS), Universite des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34060 Montpellier Cedex, France.;Department of Biology, San Diego State Univeristy, San Diego CA 92182, USA.;Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.;Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina. |
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| Abstract: | A newly discovered fossil locality at Lano (Basque Country) has yielded a vertebrate assemblage of probably Maastrichtian age comprising fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. It considerably enlarges our knowledge of the Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Europe, hitherto based on a much less complete record. Some taxa are recorded for the first time in Europe, and the fauna also contains the oldest known representatives of some groups (amphisbaenians, salamandrids). The Lan assemblage reveals an original fauna comprising both forms related to Asian and North American groups and elements with Gondwanan affinities. |
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