Barranc del Fusteró: MP 10, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Anguinae indet.
Gray 1825
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| IPS 49860, three fragments of osteoderm; IPS 49862, fragment of osteoderm | ||||||||||
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Glyptosaurinae indet.
Marsh 1872
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| IPS 49863, body osteoderm | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Catalonia |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 0.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 0.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | MP 10 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "Barranc del Fusteró is regarded, however, as MP10 (Badiola et al., 2009)" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | marl |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: "Fossil vertebrates are found in the sandstones, which are associated with complex channels of braided rivers, and also in marls and clays corresponding with floodplain deposits (Checa, 1995)." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 181618 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Barrett | Enterer: | T. Cleary |
| Modifier: | T. Cleary | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-09-21 11:28:40 | Last modified: | 2017-07-20 11:20:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-09-21 11:28:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62826. | A. Bolet. 2017. First early Eocene lizards from Spain and a study of the compositional changes between late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Iberian lizard assemblages . Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):1-22 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary] |