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Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil

View ORCID ProfileSergio Álvarez-Parra, View ORCID ProfileRicardo Pérez-de la Fuente, View ORCID ProfileEnrique Peñalver, View ORCID ProfileEduardo Barrón, View ORCID ProfileLuis Alcalá, View ORCID ProfileJordi Pérez-Cano, View ORCID ProfileCarles Martín-Closas, View ORCID ProfileKhaled Trabelsi, View ORCID ProfileNieves Meléndez, View ORCID ProfileRafael López Del Valle, View ORCID ProfileRafael P Lozano, View ORCID ProfileDavid Peris, View ORCID ProfileAna Rodrigo, View ORCID ProfileVíctor Sarto i Monteys, View ORCID ProfileCarlos A Bueno-Cebollada, View ORCID ProfileCésar Menor-Salván, View ORCID ProfileMarc Philippe, View ORCID ProfileAlba Sánchez-García, View ORCID ProfileConstanza Peña-Kairath, View ORCID ProfileAntonio Arillo, View ORCID ProfileEduardo Espílez, View ORCID ProfileLuis Mampel, View ORCID ProfileXavier Delclòs
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.14.460215
Sergio Álvarez-Parra
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente
2Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK
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Enrique Peñalver
3Museo Geominero (IGME, CSIC), c/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain
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Eduardo Barrón
3Museo Geominero (IGME, CSIC), c/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain
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Luis Alcalá
4Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis/Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Av. Sagunto s/n, 44002, Teruel, Spain
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Jordi Pérez-Cano
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Carles Martín-Closas
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Khaled Trabelsi
5Université de Sfax, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, 3038, Sfax, Tunisie
6Université de Tunis El Manar II, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18 ES07, 2092, Tunis, Tunisie
7Department of Geology, University of Vienna, UZA 2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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Nieves Meléndez
8Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Rafael López Del Valle
9Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, c/ Siervas de Jesús 24, 01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Rafael P Lozano
3Museo Geominero (IGME, CSIC), c/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain
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David Peris
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Ana Rodrigo
3Museo Geominero (IGME, CSIC), c/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain
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Víctor Sarto i Monteys
10Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Edifici Z – ICTA-ICP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Carlos A Bueno-Cebollada
3Museo Geominero (IGME, CSIC), c/ Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain
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César Menor-Salván
11Departamento de Biología de Sistemas/Instituto de Investigación Química “Andrés del Río” (IQAR), Universidad de Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
12School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Marc Philippe
13Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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Alba Sánchez-García
14Departament de Botànica i Geologia, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València, c/ Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
15Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA
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Constanza Peña-Kairath
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Antonio Arillo
16Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, c/ José Antonio Novais 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Eduardo Espílez
4Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis/Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Av. Sagunto s/n, 44002, Teruel, Spain
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Luis Mampel
4Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis/Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Av. Sagunto s/n, 44002, Teruel, Spain
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Xavier Delclòs
1Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract

Dinosaur bonebeds with amber content, yet scarce, offer a superior wealth and quality of data on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. However, the preserved palaeodiversity and/or taphonomic characteristics of these exceptional localities had hitherto limited their palaeobiological potential. Here we describe the amber from the Lower Cretaceous dinosaur bonebed of Ariño (Teruel, Spain) using a multidisciplinary approach. Amber is found in both a root layer with amber strictly in situ and a litter layer namely composed of aerial pieces unusually rich in bioinclusions, encompassing 11 insect orders, arachnids, and a few plant and vertebrate remains, including a feather. Additional palaeontological data ‒ charophytes, palynomorphs, ostracods‒ are provided. Ariño arguably represents the most prolific and palaeobiologically diverse locality in which fossiliferous amber and a dinosaur bonebed have been found in association, and the only one known where the vast majority of the palaeontological assemblage suffered no or low-grade pre-burial transport. That has enabled unlocking unprecedentedly complete and reliable palaeoecological data out of two complementary windows of preservation from the same site.

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Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil
Sergio Álvarez-Parra, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Enrique Peñalver, Eduardo Barrón, Luis Alcalá, Jordi Pérez-Cano, Carles Martín-Closas, Khaled Trabelsi, Nieves Meléndez, Rafael López Del Valle, Rafael P Lozano, David Peris, Ana Rodrigo, Víctor Sarto i Monteys, Carlos A Bueno-Cebollada, César Menor-Salván, Marc Philippe, Alba Sánchez-García, Constanza Peña-Kairath, Antonio Arillo, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Xavier Delclòs
bioRxiv 2021.09.14.460215; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.14.460215
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Dinosaur bonebed amber from an original swamp forest soil
Sergio Álvarez-Parra, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Enrique Peñalver, Eduardo Barrón, Luis Alcalá, Jordi Pérez-Cano, Carles Martín-Closas, Khaled Trabelsi, Nieves Meléndez, Rafael López Del Valle, Rafael P Lozano, David Peris, Ana Rodrigo, Víctor Sarto i Monteys, Carlos A Bueno-Cebollada, César Menor-Salván, Marc Philippe, Alba Sánchez-García, Constanza Peña-Kairath, Antonio Arillo, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Xavier Delclòs
bioRxiv 2021.09.14.460215; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.14.460215

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