Also known as La Solana
Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 5.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mazaterón Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• late Robiacian (Eocene European Land Mammal Age) in age, corresponding to the MP 15-16 Paleogene reference level
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray marl and sandstone
•the grey marls that contain the vertebrate fossils are included within the Mazaterón Formation, which consists of lacustrine-palustrine limestones and marls
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Jiménez Fuentes, M. A. Cuesta, S. Martín Jesús, E. Mulas, E. Pérez Ramos and S. Jiménez-García. 1989. Primera nota sobre los vertebrados del Eoceno Superior de Matazarón y Deza (Soria). Stvdia Geologica Salmanticensia 5:129-133 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40358: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 22.06.2004, edited by Richard Butler, Albert Garcia Selles, Philip Mannion, Grace Varnham and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847 crocodilian | |
Iberosuchus sp. Antunes 1975 crocodilian | |
Squamata indet.2 squamates IPS128812, fragment of tooth-bearing bone; IPS128815, indeterminate fragment of tooth-bearing bone; IPS128811, isolated unicuspid tooth
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cf. Blanidae indet.2 Kearney 2003 worm lizard IPS49832, right dentary (Figure 1e); IPS128804, anterior portion of left dentary (Figure 1f) and IPS128799, posterior portion of right dentary
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Lacertidae indet.11 Bonaparte 1831 squamates IPS128801, fragment of right maxilla; IPS12 8813, tooth attached to bone
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Anguidae indet.2 Gray 1825 squamates IPS128803, partial premaxilla (Figure 2b); IPS128810, anterior portion of right dentary
Anguinae indet.2 Gray 1825 squamates IPS128798, partial skull bone (Figure 2c); IPS49838, partial left frontal bone (Figure 2d); IPS128807, a partial caudal vertebra (Figure 2e); IPS128809 (Figure 2f), fragment of osteoderm; IPS49836, and IPS49840 (fragmentary body osteoderms); IPS49844, a fragmentary vertebra; IPS49841, a tooth-bearing bone with one broken tooth.
Glyptosaurini indet.2 Sullivan 1979 squamates IPS49833-49835, IPS128795-128797, IPS128805-128806, osteoderms
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Iguanidae indet.2 Oppel 1811 squamates IPS128802, fragment of maxilla (Figure 2a); IPS49839, tooth-bearing bone
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Neochelys sp. Bergounioux 1954 sideneck turtle | |
Pelorochelon soriana n. gen. n. sp.14
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Mammalia | |
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Cantabrotherium casanovasae n. sp.3, Leptolophus sp.6, "Paranchilophus remyi" = Anchilophus (Paranchilophus) remyi6, Franzenium durense n. sp.3, Plagiolophus mazateronensis n. sp.8, Palaeotherium giganteum n. sp.3, Iberolophus jimenezi n. sp.1
Leptolophus sp.6 Remy 1965 odd-toed ungulate STUS 11565, incomplete left maxillary with P2–P3–(P4)–M1–(M2); STUS 8599, right M2; STUS 11826, right M2; STUS 11018, fragment of left M3 (labial wall not preserved); STUS 14247, right maxilla fragment with M2– M3; STUS 9201, right m3 (described in Perales-Gogenola et al. 2021)
"Paranchilophus remyi" = Anchilophus (Paranchilophus) remyi6 Casanovas and Santafé 1989 odd-toed ungulate
Iberolophus jimenezi n. sp.1 Badiola and Cuesta 2008 odd-toed ungulate US 11800, right hemimandible, exhibiting p1 and m1 alveoli, and the p2–p4 and m2–m3 series.
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Duerotherium sudrei n. gen. n. sp.4 Cuesta and Badiola 2009 even-toed ungulate STUS 11562, a fragment of the left maxilla, showing the P3-M3 series.
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Mazateronodon endemicus n. gen. n. sp.10
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Pseudoloris cuestai n. sp.11
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