Caenes (Eocene to of Spain)

Where: Salamanca, Spain (41.0° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 8.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MP 15 to MP 15 (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• Upper Rhenanian, Upper middle Eocene, MP 15-16

•Robiacian–Bartonian (Badiola et al. 2009; Pérez-García 2017)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Cuesta Ruiz-Colmenares. 1992. Perisodáctilos del Paleógeno de Castilla y León. Vertebrados fósiles de Castilla y León 111-120 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40892: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 02.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
cf. Iberosuchus sp.3 Antunes 1975 crocodilian
STUS 349 (dentary lacking the symphysial area, probably belonging to a juvenile individual), STUS 13701 (dentary, anteriorly and posteriorly incomplete, with part of the splenial attached anteriorly), and STUS 1259 (left articular fragment lacking the retroarticular process)
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
"Podocnemis carbajosai n. sp." = Neochelys salmanticensis2
"Podocnemis carbajosai n. sp." = Neochelys salmanticensis2 Jimenez 1971 sideneck turtle
Holotype: N209
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Leptotheridium sp.1 Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Plagiolophus sp. n. sp., "Paranchilophus sp." = Anchilophus (Paranchilophus), Franzenium sp. n. sp.
Plagiolophus sp. n. sp. Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
"Paranchilophus sp." = Anchilophus (Paranchilophus) Casanovas and Santafé 1989 odd-toed ungulate
Franzenium sp. n. sp. Casanovas and Santafe 1989 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiodontidae indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate