Barranco de los Mártires, Alcalá de Henares: Middle Miocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo bolivari n. sp.
Hernandez-Pacheco 1917
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Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 | |||||||||
| recombined as Titanochelon bolivari | ||||||||||
| The original type material considered as lost was relocated by Perez-Garcia and Vlachos (2014) and a lectotype was designated from this locality. This is the specimen ‘Alcalá 2’, a partial skeleton including most of its shell and numerous appendicular elements, found in 1917. Carapace = MNCN 32773, Plastron = MNCN 32771. At least three individuals are known from this locality. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain |
| Coordinates: | 40.5° North, 3.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.6° North, 4.6° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | Mammal zone: | MN 6 |
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Aragonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cerro del Viso | ||
| Database number: | 144666 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-15 03:04:27 | Last modified: | 2017-07-21 13:58:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-15 03:04:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60876. | A. Pérez-García and E. Vlachos. 2014. New generic proposal for the European Neogene large testudinids (Cryptodira) and the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the medium and large representatives of the European Cenozoic record. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:653-719 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 64553 | E. Hernandez-Pacheco. 1917. El problema de la investigación científica en España. Asociación Española para el Progreso de las Ciencias 2:63-93 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 46814 | E. Jimenez-Fuentes, E. M. Alonso, S. Martin Jesus and E. P. Ramos. 1988. Tipos depositados en la Sala de las Turtugas de la Universidad de Salamanca. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 25:205-210 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |