PBDB Collection

Puerto de la Cadena (Pliocene of Spain)

Also known as Barranco del Cigarrón, Autovía

Where: Murcia, Spain (37.9° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: CI-10 Member (Cigarron Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; medium-grained, coarse, conglomeratic sandstone

• the Puerto de la Cadena, microfossils are concentrated in vegetated areas of the floodplain

• The Cigarrón Unit at the Puerto de la Cadena site is represented by a sand and lutite alternating succession (Fig. 2). The sandy facies association is characterized by coarse sediments (mainly sands, but also microconglomerates and conglomerates), that are mainly organized in sets of trough and planar cross-stratification. These sets have a thickness of between a few centimeters and a meter, and most of them have an erosive base that exhibits a basal lag with intraformational mud clasts, fragmentary bones and plant fossil remains. They fine upwards, with frequent reactivation surfaces.

•The macrovertebrate fossil remains are mainly located in the conglomeratic layers of the sands or in the basal lag of the sedimentary sets. The sand components are medium-sized to coarse siliciclastic grains with very little matrix and no cement. Cross-bedding in the sed- imentary sets exhibits internal lamina that are variably inclined, from quasi-horizontal to 30°, and in most cases points towards N55°E.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 2009-2011

• housed at the Museo Arqueológico de Murcia (MAM; Murcia, Spain)

Primary reference: P. Pinero, J. Agusti, O. Oms, I. Fierro, P. Montoya, S. Mansino, F. Ruiz-Sanchez, D. M. Alba, M. T. Alberdi, H.-A. Blain, C. Laplana, J. Made, A. V. Mazo, J. Morales, X. Murelaga, A. Perez-Garcia, F. Perez-Valera, J. A. Perez-Valera, P. Sevilla, J. M. Soria, and G. Romero. 2017. Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185681: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.05.2017, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• The taxonomic list is a combination of the material of several individual collections in the greater site of the Puerto de la Cadena (e.g., Autovía, Barranco del Cigarrón)

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unclassified
-	Debruijnimys sp. Debruijnimys sp.
Reptilia
Testudines - Trionychidae	Trionychidae indet. Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
Testudines - Testudinidae	Titanochelon sp., Alatochelon myrteum n. gen. n. sp. Titanochelon sp. Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014 turtle Alatochelon myrteum n. gen. n. sp. Pérez-García et al. 2020 turtle
Squamata - Colubridae	Malpolon sp. Malpolon sp. Fitzinger 1826 colubrid snake gr. monspessulanus-mlynarski
Squamata - Crotalidae	Vipera sp. Vipera sp. Laurenti 1768 pit viper
Loricata -	Crocodylia indet. Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Mammalia
Primates - Cercopithecidae	Macaca sp. Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799 macaque
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Trischizolagus maritsae Trischizolagus maritsae de Bruijn et al. 1970 rabbit
Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae	Prolagus cf. michauxi Prolagus cf. michauxi pika
Rodentia - Muridae	Stephanomys cf. dubari, Paraethomys cf. meini Stephanomys cf. dubari mouse Paraethomys cf. meini mouse
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Apocricetus cf. barrierei, Ruscinomys lasallei Apocricetus cf. barrierei Mein and Michaux 1970 rodent Ruscinomys lasallei Adrover 1969 rodent
Artiodactyla - Giraffidae	Sivatherium cf. hendeyi Sivatherium cf. hendeyi Harris 1976 giraffe
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Cervidae indet. Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Bovidae indet., Parabos sp., Gazella aff. baturra, Gazella aff. lydekkeri Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope sp. 1, 2, 3 Parabos sp. Arambourg and Piveteau 1929 antelope Gazella aff. baturra gazelle Gazella aff. lydekkeri Pilgrim 1937 gazelle
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Dihoplus schleiermacheri Dihoplus schleiermacheri Kaup 1834 rhinoceros vel Dihoplus megarhinus
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Hipparion aff. fissurae Hipparion aff. fissurae Crusafont and Sondaar 1971 hipparionine horse
Carnivora - Canidae	Eucyon monticinensis Eucyon monticinensis Rook 1992 canine
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Anancus arvernensis Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere