Can Mas (El Papiol): MN 4, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Eurysternidae
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Parachelys catalaunica
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Iberovaranus catalaunicus n. gen., n. sp.
Hoffstetter 1969
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
| synonym of Varanus | ||||||||||
| IPS 31701, cervical vertebra; IPS 58437, trunk vertebra. Originally identified as Ophisaurus sp. (Crusafont et al., 1955) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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? Coronella sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Palaeortyx phasianoides
Milne-Edwards 1871
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Sánchez‐Marco 2021 | |||||||||
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Miophasianus altus
(Milne-Edwards 1871)
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Sánchez‐Marco 2021 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Prolagus vasconiensis
Viret 1930
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Mammalia
- Cainotheriidae
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Caenotherium miocaenicum
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
| synonym of Cainotherium | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Euprox minimus
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Trilophodon angustidens
(Cuvier 1806)
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Hoffstetter 1969 | |||||||||
| recombined as Tetrabelodon angustidens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Insectivora
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Insectivora (informal Species 1) indet.
(Bowdich 1821)
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Insectivora (informal Species 2) indet.
(Bowdich 1821)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Helicidae
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? Helix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Catalonia | County: | El Papiol |
| Coordinates: | 41.4° North, 2.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° North, 0.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | MN 4 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.90000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 17 to 16 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Valles-Penedes basin | Formation: | Miocene Lower Continental Complex | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "An MN4 age (i.e., circa 17–16 Ma; Agustí et al. 2001) has been customarily given to CMA (Agustí et al. 1985; Fortelius 2011), which is consistent with the presence of Gomphotherium angustidens(cited by Crusafont et al. 1955), although this taxon does not exclude an earlier, MN3 age (Agustí et al. 2001; Casanovas ;Vilar et al. 2011a). Further refinement is precluded by the lack of;sociated rodents. An attribution to MN4 would also be supported by the record of Eotragus reported by Fortelius (2011). However, an inspection of the available macromammalian fossils from CMA housed at the ICP yielded no remains of the bovid Eotragus. Interestingly a single mandibular fragment of the paleomerycid Lagomeryx (DMA, personal observations), was located, but does not discriminate between MN3 and MN4" (from Delfino et al., 2013) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Lithology description: "Can Mas (...) it is mainly composed of reddish terrigenous deposits of varied lithology, deposited in the context of alluvial fan systems" | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list from Hoffstetter, 1969, referred to Crusafont et al., 1955. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176265 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Benito Moreno | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-04 10:30:31 | Last modified: | 2016-03-10 10:48:37 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-02-04 10:30:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57921. | M. Delfino, J. C. Rage, A. Bolet and D. M. Alba. 2013. Early Miocene dispersal of the lizard Varanus into Europe: Reassessment of vertebral material from Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4):731-735 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] |
Secondary references:
| 57920 | R. Hoffstetter. 1969. Présence de Varanidae (Reptilia, Sauria) dans le Miocène de Catalogne. Considérations sur l’histoire de la famille. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 40:1051-1064 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] | |
| 78374 | A. Sánchez‐Marco. 2021. Old and new fossil birds from the Spanish Miocene. Journal of Iberian Geology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |