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Vilamitjana

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Vilamitjana
Decentralized municipal entity
Vilamitjana is located in Province of Lleida
Vilamitjana
Vilamitjana
Vilamitjana is located in Catalonia
Vilamitjana
Vilamitjana
Vilamitjana is located in Spain
Vilamitjana
Vilamitjana
Coordinates: 42°8′48″N 0°55′9″E / 42.14667°N 0.91917°E / 42.14667; 0.91917[1]
Country Spain
Community Catalonia
ProvinceLleida
MunicipalityTremp
Elevation
447 m (1,467 ft)
Population
 • Total162

Vilamitjana is a locality and decentralized municipal entity located in the municipality of Tremp, in Province of Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 162.[2]

Geography

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Vilamitjana is located 95km north-northeast of Lleida.

Places of interest

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Vilamitjana is known by the finding of an important paleontological site named: Les Serretes. In this site there have found dinosaur remains that belongs to the Second biggest hadrosaur found in Spain, and the biggest of Catalonia. It was identifyied as Blasisaurus aff. Also there have been found two carnívor dinosaur tooth that belongs to two new dinosaur species morphotypes. [3] [4]

Picture of the dentary from les Serretes. Nowadays exposed on the Museum of Isona.

References

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  1. ^ Mapa de Vilamitjana, Tremp, Provincia de Lérida, Cataluña
  2. ^ "Nomenclátor: Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  3. ^ Fuentes-Buxó, R. & Dalla Vecchia, F.M. 2014. Les Serretes, a new Late Maastrichtian dinosaur site in the eastern Tremp Syncline (Southern Pyrenees, Spain). In: Paleontologia i Evolució. Reconstructing the Terrestrial end-cretaceous paleoenvironments in Europe. pp 70.
  4. ^ Fuentes Buxó, R. 2012. Anàlisi de restes paleontològiques del Maastrichtià superior (Cretaci superior) procedents d’un nou jaciment situat en Les Serretes (Vilamitjana, Conca de Tremp, Espanya). Treball de fi de Master de Paleontologia (UAB-UB-ICP). 129 pp.
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