Conceptual reconstruction of the distal domain of the North Iberian paleopassive margin at mid‐Cretaceous times as constrained from the data presented in this study. Thin mylonitic pre‐Silurian crustal lenses are exhumed together with the mantle at the floor of the Albian‐Cenomanian basin; these are locally reworked together in in clastic deposits interfingered with the late Albian tubidites (e.g., Urdach Breccia). The granulitic lower crust is extracted laterally and is left behind in the proximal margin domain. The Mesozoic prerift cover glide on a decollement layer represented by the late Triassic evaporites (Keuper) and are locally put in direct contact with the exhumed mantle in the distal domain (e.g., Saraillé massif). Clastic deposits reworking post‐Silurian and Mesozoic prerift deposits (e.g., Mendibelza conglomerate) onlap the proximal margin that is simply tilted basinward, without the development of major tilted blocks.