The La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called as La Pedrera de Meià is an Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Barremian geologic formation in Catalonia, Spain. The formation crops out in the area of the Montsec in the Organyà Basin. At the La Pedrera de Meià locality, the formation consists of rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones that formed in the distal areas of a large, shallow coastal lake. It is noted for the exceptional preservation of articulated small vertebrates and insects, similar to that of the Solnhofen Limestone.
Fossil content The La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation has yielded the enantiornithine bird Noguerornis and the scincogekkomorph lizard Pedrerasaurus,Weishampel et al., 2004, pp. 517-607Lacasa Ruiz, 1989Chiappé & Lacasa Ruiz, 2002Bolet & Evans, 2010 and two species of Teiid lizard Meyasaurus, M. fauri and M. crusafonti, the indeterminate avialan Ilerdopteryx,Kellner, 2002 frogs Neusibatrachus wilferti,Báez & Sanchiz, 2007, p.477 Eodiscoglossus santonjae and Montsechobatrachus. A crocodyliform Montsecosuchus and many insects and other arthropods, as:La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation at Fossilworks.org
Angarosphex lithographicu Archisphex catalunicus Artitocoblatta hispanica Chalicoridulum montsecensis Chrysobothris ballae Cionocoleus longicapitis Condalia woottoni Cretephialtites pedrerae Hirmoneura (Eohirmoneura) neli Hirmoneura richterae Iberoraphidia dividua Ilerdocossus pulcherrima Ilerdosphex wenzae Jarzembowskia edmundi Leridatoma pulcherrima Manlaya lacabrua Meiagaster cretaceus Meiatermes bertrani Mesoblattina colominasi Mesopalingea lerida Mimamontsecia cretacea Montsecbelus solutus Nanoraphidia lithographica Nogueroblatta fontllongae N. nana Pachypsyche vidali Pompilopterus montsecensis Proraphidia gomezi Prosyntexis montsecensis Pseudochrysobothris ballae Ptiolinites almuthae Vitisma occidentalis Cretaholocompsa montsecana Montsecosphex jarzembowskii Cretobestiola hispanica Angarosphex penyalveri Cretoserphus gomezi Bolbonectus lithographicus ?Anaglyphites pluricavus Palaeaeschna vidali Hispanochlorogomphus rossi Palaeouloborus lacasae Ichthyemidion vivaldi
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See also List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera Tremp Formation Baltic, Burmese, Dominican, Mexican amber
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Further reading A. P. Rasnitsyn and J. Ansorge. 2000. Two new Lower Cretaceous hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Sierra del Montsec, Spain. Acta Geológica Hispánica 35:59-64 X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1993. Blátidos (Insecta, Blattodea) del Cretácico Inferior de España. Familias Mesoblattinidae, Blattulidae y Poliphagidae. Boletín Geológico y Minero 104:516-538 X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1990. Insectos del Cretácico inferior de Santa Maria de Meià (Lleida): colleción Lluís Marià Vidal i Carreras. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 1:91-116 P. E. S. Whalley and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1985. Fossil insects from the Lithographic Limestone Montsech (Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous), Lérida Province, Spain. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 38(5):381-412 J. E. Gomez Pallerola. 1979. Un ave y otras especies fósiles nuevas de la biofacies de Santa María de Meyá (Lérida). Boletín Geológico y Minero 90:333-346