Also known as Menorca, Minorca
Where: Balearic Islands, Spain (40.1° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 3.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• The few evidence availabe points to an age between Upper Miocene and Pleistocene, i.e., most likely, Pliocene (Bailon et al., 2002).
Environment/lithology: karst; poorly lithified, pebbly, quartzose, red, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. Quintana, S. Moyà-Solà in 1995
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• CBQ = collection of Josep "Bep" Quintana
Primary reference: B. Segui, J. Quintana, J. J. Fornos and J. A. Alcover. 2001. A new fulmarine petrel (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the upper Miocene of the western Mediterranean. Palaeontology 44(5):933-948 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136227: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•The paratypes of P. minoricensis are not explicitly referred to a particular locality by Seguí (2001). However, their position within the listing and their catalogue numbers suggest, that they come from site 3. (TL)
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Cheirogaster gymnesica turtle | |
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Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates | |
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Pterodromoides minoricensis Segui et al. 2001 petrel 3 fragments of postcranial bones (CBQ 1189, CBQ 1227 = paratypes, and CBQ 1210)
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Tyto balearica Mourer-Chauvire et al. 1980 barn owl | |
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Leporidae "gen. et sp. nov." Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit 1 upper molar and 1 lumbar vertebra (Seguí, 2001); "large" (Bailon et al., 2002)
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