Minas de Libros (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Teruel, Spain (40.2° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 to MN 9 (11.1 - 8.7 Ma)

• originally said to be Oligocene but actually "Vallesian, MN 9–10" (McNamara et al. 2009)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified mudstone

• "pizarras bituminosas" = bituminous shales or slates (actually laminated mudstones: McNamara et al. 2009)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by P. Longinos Navás, J. Pueyo

• Museo Colegio del Salvador collection

Primary reference: R. P. Longinos Navás. 1922. Algunos Fósiles de Libros (Teruel). Boletín de la Sociedad Ibérica de Ciencias Naturales 21:52-61 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44942: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 21.09.2004, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Oligosemia spinosa n. gen. n. sp.
Oligosemia spinosa n. gen. n. sp. Longinos Navás 1922 newt
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana pueyoi n. sp. Longinos Navás 1922 frog
Rana quellembergi n. sp. Longinos Navás 1922 frog
Reptilia
 Serpentes -
Arachnida
 Araneae -
Araneae indet. Clerck 1757 spider
"araña" compared to Araneus
Insecta
 Diptera -
? Diptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 fly
 Dicondylia -
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle
Odonata indet. Fabricius 1793 dragonfly
"libélula" (dragonfly)