Duero basin (Eocene of Spain)

Also known as Diplocynodon tormis type

Where: Salamanca, Spain (41.0° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 8.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Areniscas de Cabrerizos Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Middle-Upper Rhenanian; Duero Basin

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. D. Buscalioni, J. L. Sanz, and M. L. Casanovas. 1992. A new species of the eusuchian crocodile Diplocynodon from the Eocene of Spain. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 187(1):1-29 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144444: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Diplocynodon tormis n. sp. Buscalioni et al. 1992 crocodilian
IPS-9001 - type (skull); paratypes: ST-7066 and ST-344