San Morales (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.0° N, 5.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 8.6° W)

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• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Miquel. 1906. Restos fosiles de vertebrados encontrados en San Morales (Salamanca). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 6:352-357 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40883: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 02.07.2004, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Rynchocephalia indet.
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Eosuchia -
Lepidosauria indet.
Lepidosauria indet. Haeckel 1866 lepidosaur
 Loricata -
cf. Iberosuchus sp.3, Eusuchia indet.
cf. Iberosuchus sp.3 Antunes 1975 crocodilian
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
 Crocodylia -
Diplocynodon tormis3
Diplocynodon tormis3 Buscalioni et al. 1992 crocodilian
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys sp.3
Neochelys sp.3 Bergounioux 1954 sideneck turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Xiphodon gracile
Xiphodon gracile Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiodon sanmoralense n. sp.1
Lophiodon sanmoralense n. sp.1 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Palaeotheriidae indet.2, Plagiolophus sp.2, cf. Anchilophus sp.2
Palaeotheriidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1850 odd-toed ungulate
Plagiolophus sp.2 Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
cf. Anchilophus sp.2 Gervais 1852 odd-toed ungulate
1Cuesta 1994; 2Cuesta Ruiz-Colmenares 1992; 3Ortega et al. 2022