Minas de azufre de Libros (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Teruel, Spain (40.2° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 to MN 9 (11.1 - 8.7 Ma)

• originally said to be Oligocene but actually "Vallesian, MN 9–10" (McNamara et al. 2009)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified mudstone

• obtained near sulfur mines, but figured specimen shows same preservation as other Libros specimens from lithified, laminated mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: Museo Colegio del Salvador collection

•collector and collection date unclear

Primary reference: R. P. Longinos Navás. 1922. Algunos Fósiles de Libros (Teruel). Boletín de la Sociedad Ibérica de Ciencias Naturales 21:52-61 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44943: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 21.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• general locality description is essentially the same as that of collection 44942, but probably from a different exact location and kept separate just in case
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Aves
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
"Thiornis sociata n. gen. n. sp." = Podiceps sociatus
"Thiornis sociata n. gen. n. sp." = Podiceps sociatus Longinos Navás 1922 grebe