Quinta da Farinheira (Miocene of Portugal)

Where: Lisbon, Portugal (38.7° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 10.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Lower Langhian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr. Batalha de Almeida in 1937-1941

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes. 1969. Mamiferos nao marinhos do Miocenico de Lisboa: ecologia e estratigrafia (nota preliminar). Boletim da Sociedade Geologica do Portugal, Lisboa 17:75-85 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35986: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 13.01.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

• certainly incomplete
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Tomistoma lusitanica n. sp.1 Antunes 1961 false gharial
Type of Gavialosuchus americana lusitanica
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Titanochelon cf. bolivari2 Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 turtle
Titanochelon bolivari2 Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae