Where: Madrid, Spain (40.4° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 5.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Orleanian (20.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Ceratinly older than MN6, probably MN4b, Middle Orleanian, Middle Miocene.
Environment/lithology:
Collection methods: 50 cm by 1m was excavated in a rescue excavation by the 'Equipo de Vertebrados del Instituto de Geologia del CSIC de Madrid.'
Primary reference: M. T. Alberdi, E. Jimenez, J. Morales and C. Sese. 1981. Moratines: pimeros micromamiferos en el Mioceno Medio del area de Madrid. Estudios Geologicos 37:291-305 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40747: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 30.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
"Geochelone bolivari" = Titanochelon bolivari
"Geochelone bolivari" = Titanochelon bolivari Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 turtle Bones and carapace fragments.
| |
| Mammalia | |
|
| |
|
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825 anchitheriine horse 2 maxilla fragments, 1 lower M3, 1 lower incisor, plus numerous cranial fragments. 1 distal humerus, 1 astragalus, 3 proximal metapodia, 1 distal metapodial, 2 first phalanges and many carpal and tarsal fragments.
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
Triceromeryx pachecoi Villalta et al. 1946 ruminant 1 maxilla with M1-M3, 1 upper P4, 1 mandible with P4-M1 and 1 distal humerus fragment.
| |
|
Miotragocerus sp. Stromer 1928 antelope | |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |