Les Cases de Valenciana (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.4° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• The recorded herpetofauna suggests various ecological environments: arid landscapes with open woodland are inferred for the heliophile testudinid; a riparian forest for the semiaquatic ptychogasterine; as well as a small and shallow lake, indicated by the presence of the small alligatoroid.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Crusafont, ICP in 1950, 2012-2016

Primary reference: A. H. Lujan, D. deMiguel, M. Ivanov, J. Madurell-Malapeira, S. Jovells-Vaque and I. Casanovas-Vilar. 2017. Paleoherpetofauna from the Early Miocene Locality of Les Cases de la Valenciana (Catalonia, Spain). Ziteliana 91:55-55 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205815: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• According to the rodent fauna, the age of the site is constrained between 16.3-16.0 Ma
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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Diplocynodon cf. ratelii
Diplocynodon cf. ratelii Pomel 1847 crocodilian
 Squamata - Boidae
cf. Python sp.
cf. Python sp. Daudin 1803 boa
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Titanochelon cf. bolivari
Titanochelon cf. bolivari Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster cf. emydoides
Ptychogaster cf. emydoides Pomel 1847 turtle