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The Castellar Formation is a geological formation in Teruel and La Rioja, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Euornithopod tracks and dinosaur eggs are known from the formation.

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s of the Castellar Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Aragosaurus Aragosaurus Aragosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain....	A. ischiaticus
Camarasaurus Camarasaurus Camarasaurus meaning 'chambered lizard', referring to the hollow chambers in its vertebrae was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was the most common of the giant sauropods to be found in North America...	Indeterminate				Remains once referred to Camarasaurus are now considered to be the fossils of some indeterminate sauropod.
Echinodon Echinodon Echinodon meaning "hedgehog tooth" in reference to the spines on its teeth , occasionally known as Saurechinodon, is a genus of small European dinosaur of the early Cretaceous Period , 140 million years ago.-Discovery and species:The type specimen was discovered by Samuel Beckles in the Purbeck...	Indeterminate				Later found to be indeterminate ornithischian remains.
Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon is an ornithopod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of Europe. It was a small bipedal animal with an herbivorous or possibly omnivorous diet...	Indeterminate
Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...	I. atherfieldensis				Later found to be indeterminate iguanodont remains.
Pleurocoelus	Indeterminate				Possible indeterminate titanosauriforme remains.
Paronychodon Paronychodon Paronychodon was a theropod dinosaur genus. It is a tooth taxon, considered dubious because of the fragmentary nature of the fossils, which include "buckets" of teeth but no other remains...	Indeterminate				Possible indeterminate troodont remains.

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