Sierra Perenchiza Formation
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| type = Geological formation
| age = Late Campanian-early Maastrichtian
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| period = Maastrichtian
| prilithology = Limestone
| otherlithology = Marl
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| region = Valencia
| country = Spain
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The Sierra Perenchiza Formation is a late Campanian to late Maastrichtian geologic formation in Spain. Dinosaur, pterosaur, turtle, lissamphibian, frog and albanerpetontid remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation,{{Cite journal|last1=Company|first1=Julio|last2=Szentesi|first2=Zoltán|date=2012|title=Amphibians from the Late Cretaceous Sierra Perenchiza Formation of the Chera Basin, Valencia Province, Spain|journal=Cretaceous Research|volume=37|pages=240–245|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2012.04.003|bibcode=2012CrRes..37..240C |issn=0195-6671}} although none have yet been referred to a specific genusWeishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. and the crocodylomorphs Acynodon, Doratodon ibericus and Musturzabalsuchus are also known from this formation.Company, J., Suberbiola, X.P., Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I. & Buscalioni, A.D. (2005). A new species of Doratodon (Crocodyliformes: Ziphosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2): 343–353
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= Bibliography =
- {{cite book |editor-last=Weishampel |editor-first=David B. |editor-last2=Dodson |editor-first2=Peter |editor-last3=Osmólska |editor-first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria|edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |location=Berkeley|publisher= University of California Press |pages=1–880 |accessdate=2019-02-21|isbn=0-520-24209-2}}
Category:Geologic formations of Spain
Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe