Les Saleres (Eocene of Spain)

Also known as La Atmetella; Ager Basin

Where: Lleida, Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• "although a detailed dating cannot be provided, Les Saleres can be confidently assigned to the early Eocene, which is the age of the continental deposits of the Àger sub-basin"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Sabadell Museum collection

Primary reference: F. S. Szalay. 1971. The European adapid primates Agerina and Pronycticebus. American Museum Novitates 2466:1-18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88345: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.04.2009, edited by Richard Butler and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
? Iberosuchus macrodon1 Antunes 1975 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynodictis sp.2 Bravard and Pomel 1850 bear-dog
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
"Propachynolophus remyi" = Hyracotherium remyi2
"Propachynolophus remyi" = Hyracotherium remyi2 Checa-Soler 1997 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiaspis mauretti2 odd-toed ungulate
Lophiaspis corsaensis2 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
? Cebochoerus sp.2 Gervais 1852 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
? Protodichobune oweni2 Lemoine 1878 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis sp.2 Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Primates - Notharctidae
"Agerina roselli n. gen. n. sp." = Agerinia roselli
"Agerina roselli n. gen. n. sp." = Agerinia roselli Crusafont-Pairó 1967 primate
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Peratherium sp.2 Aymard 1850 marsupial