Sant Jaume de Frontanyà-3D (Eocene of Spain)

Also known as SJF-3D

Where: Barcelona, Spain (42.2° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bellmunt Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Sant Jaume de Frontanyà-3 has been attributed to the middle Bartonian, or Robiacian (MP14-15), based on the presence of Elfomys nov. sp. (Sudre et al., 1990; Quer and Agustí, 2010).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; marl and coal

• "palustrine"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1990

Collection methods: bulk

• ICP: Institut de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Barcelona

Primary reference: R. Minwer-Barakat, J. Marigó, and S. Moyà-Solà. 2010. A New Species of Pseudoloris (Omomyidae, Primates) from the Middle Eocene of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (Eastern Pyrenees, Spain). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143:92-99 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182221: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.10.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Omomyidae
Pseudoloris pyrenaicus Minwer-Barakat et al. 2010 tarsier
Four I1, two C1, three P4, two complete and two incomplete M1, one M2, three fragments of indeterminated lower molars, one I1, four P2, one incomplete P3, four incomplete P4, six incomplete M1–2, one M3. Catalogue numbers IPS46344- IPS46377.
 Primates - Notharctidae
Anchomomys frontanyensis Marigó et al. 2011 primate
103 teeth
 Primates - Adapidae
Adapis sp. Cuvier 1822 primate