Also known as B40OV; route B-40; tramo de la Autovia Orbital B-40
Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.5° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 1.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• ["The sediments affected in the works of the B-40 are located in the context of the Vallès-Penedès basin... The sediments of the affected area in this paleontological intervention correspond to the higher continental complexes, which have an age between the middle Miocene (Aragonian) and the upper Miocene (Turolian)."] - translated from the Spanish in Alba et al. (2010)
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2008-2009
Primary reference: D. M. Alba, R. Carmona, A. Bolet, J. M. Robles, I. Casanovas-Vilar, M. Furió Sanisidro, E. Rifà, J. Balaguer, L. Checa, A. H. Luján, M. Tomàs and S. Moyà-Solà. 2010. Intervención paleontológica en la Autovía Oribital de Barcelona B-40, tramo Olesa de Montserrat-Viladecavalls: resultados preliminares [Paleontological intervention at Autovia Orbital de Barcelona B-40, Olesa de Montserrat-Viladecavalls stretch: preliminary results]. Cidaris 30:51-60 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199537: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 29.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Cheirogaster sp. Bergounioux 1935 turtle | |
Squamata indet. squamates | |
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825 squamates | |
cf. Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere | |
Thalassictis robusta Gervais 1850 hyaena | |
Martes sp. Frisch 1775 marten | |
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Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros | |
Miotragocerus sp. Stromer 1928 antelope | |
Micromeryx sp. Lartet 1851 musk deer | |
Euprox sp. Stehlin 1928 deer | |
Birgerbohlinia sp. Crusafont Pairó and Villalta 1951 giraffe | |
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833 chevrotain | |
Parasorex sp. von Meyer 1865 hedgehog
Lantanotherium sp. Filhol 1888 hedgehog | |
Eurolagus fontannesi placental | |
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977 pika | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel
cf. Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 squirrel | |
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse | |
Hispanomys sp. Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent |