Font del Torricó-1 (FT-1) (Eocene of Spain)

Also known as l’Ametlla del Montsec

Where: Lleida, Spain (42.0° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 8 + 9 zone, Corçà Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Font del Torricó is a new locality the age of which is preliminarily regarded as early Eocene without more precision."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray, yellow claystone

• "Fossil vertebrates are found in the sandstones, which are associated with complex channels of braided rivers, and also in marls and clays corresponding with floodplain deposits (Checa, 1995)."
• 1-m-thick level of versicolor clays (brown, yellow, and gray)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Bolet. 2017. First early Eocene lizards from Spain and a study of the compositional changes between late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Iberian lizard assemblages . Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):1-22 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187320: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 20.07.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Notharctidae
Agerinia sp. Crusafont-Pairó and Golpe-Posse 1973 primate
IPS-104805
 Theriamorpha -
 Artiodactyla -
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848 even-toed ungulate
Reptilia
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Iguanidae indet. Oppel 1811 squamates
IPS 83531, fragment of tooth bearing bone with two tricuspid teeth
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguinae indet. Gray 1825 squamates
IPS 83533, body osteoderm; ?IPS 83537, two fragments of vertebrae (condyles)
Glyptosaurini indet. Sullivan 1979 squamates
IPS 83532, two cranial osteoderms, one fragment of osteoderm
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian