Antoni Lacasa Ruiz

• Professor. At present retired.
• Curator at Institut Estudis Ilerdencs - Lleida

RESUMEN -Se cumplen 115 años del descubrimiento por Luís Mariano Vidal, del yacimiento de calizas litográficas del Montsec ("calizas litográficas de Santa María de Meià") como depósito paleontológico de gran importancia. A finales del pasado siglo se "redescubrió" el yacimiento de "la Cabroa" mucho más próximo a Santa María de Meià. Desde entonces...

From among fossil fauna and flora specimens discovered in the famous outcrop of lithographic limestone of Montsec Mountain (Lleida, Spain), from the Early Cretaceous, there is one specimen of a small incomplete bird skeleton. Only the bones of the left wing, the wish-bone (furcula), feathers and some other fragmentary bones are preserved. It lacks...

The Early Cretaceous Spanish fossil locality of Montsec has till now yielded several specimens of the scincomorph lizard genus Meyasaurus, but no other lizard taxa. We describe here the skeleton of a small lizard which is quite distinct from Meyasaurus in its skull, dentition and postcranial proportions, and shows a greater resemblance to the Late...

It is described in this paper for the frrst time the fossil bird skeleton found at the famous quarry of Iimestones of Montsec mountain dated from Early Cretaceous. Unfortunately it is only preserved a few part of this skeleton concerning to the fore arms mainly. The few characters preserved do not allow to assign any taxonomic position but they sho...

The Neocomian Spanish outcrops of Montsec (province of Lérida) and the new one of Las Hoyas (province of Cuenca) have yielded several avian remains in the last few years. Several isolated feathers have been reported from Montsec, and a specimen of some feathered wing bones has recently been found. Las Hoyas has yielded an isolated feather and a nea...