Also known as l’Ametlla del Montsec

Where: Lleida, Spain (42.0° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 8 + 9 zone, Corçà Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Font del Torricó is a new locality the age of which is preliminarily regarded as early Eocene without more precision."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray, yellow claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Bolet. 2017. First early Eocene lizards from Spain and a study of the compositional changes between late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Iberian lizard assemblages . Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):1-22 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187320: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 20.07.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

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