Also known as els Casots; Subirats; Cal Sutxet farmhouse

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.4° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN4 mammal zone, Detritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Detritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats - MN4; zone C from the Early Aragonian of the Calatayud-Daroca Basin,with an estimated age of 16.5–16.3 Ma

•Considering these data, the dominantly reverse polarity interval recorded in the cores is best correlated to chron C5Br (15.974–15.160 Ma; boundaries after Ogg 2020). Coupled with the aforementioned correlation to Aragonian subzone Cb (16.15–15.94 Ma; Van der Meulen et al. 2012), this results in an estimated age of ~15.9 Ma for the site of els Casots.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coprolite

Collected by M. Crusafort, T. Adell, ICP teams in 1989-1994, 2018-present

• The fossiliferous area of els Casots is huge, comprising all the fields around the farmhouses of Cal Solà and Cal Sutxet, but only a small area of about 6,200 m2 is protected. For the moment being, a small surface of just 400 m2 has been excavated, most of it during the 1990s field campaigns.

•Field campaigns since 2018 have focused on the excavation of level J, a bone bed that has yielded partially articulated specimens. Furthermore, well-preserved carnivoran coprolites and numerous wood fragments have been found at level J.

Primary reference: J. L. Díaz Aráez, M. Delfino, A. H. Luján, J. Fortuny, F. Bernardini and D. M. Alba. 2017. New remains of Diplocynodon (Crocodylia: Diplocynodontidae) from the Early Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula. Comptes Rendus Palevol 16(1):12-26 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180192: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.07.2016, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos

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