Camp dels Ninots, Can Argilera Sector: Late/Upper Pliocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Pelophylax cf. perezi
Frost et al. 2006
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| Articulated specimens. Codes: “CN”05 - 08. | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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cf. Pleurodeles sp.
Michahelles 1830
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| 5 isolated vertebrae. Code: “CN”08. | ||||||||||
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Lissotriton aff. helveticus
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| Articulated specimen. Code: “CN”05. | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Mauremys leprosa
Schweigger 1812
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| Articulated skeletons. Code: “CN”05 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus arvernensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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| one complete articulated skeleton. Code: “CN”08 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Alephis tigneresi
Michaux et al. 1991
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus atavus
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain |
| Coordinates: | 41.8° North, 2.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.9° North, 2.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 3.5 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray,green sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Green and green-grayish mudstones and sandstones | |
| Environment: | crater lake |
| Geology comments: This volcano was first identified by Vehí et al. (1999) who described and identified the Camp dels Ninots strata as lake sediments filling the crater. The new palaeontological data reported herein come from the lacustrine beds of this maar. According to substrate features, this volcano can be classified as a soft-substrate maar lake (Lorenz, 2000). | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Bioerosion: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: All the remains are provisionally stored in the collections of the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social at Tarragona. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 193557 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2018-05-28 12:20:50 | Last modified: | 2018-05-28 12:25:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-05-28 12:20:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65759. | B. Gomez de Soler, G. Campeny Vall-Llosera, J. Made, O. Oms, J. Agusti, R. Sala, H.-A. Blain, F. Burjachs, J. Claude, S. Garcia Catalan, D. Riba and R. Rosillo. 2012. A new key locality for the Pliocene vertebrate record of Europe: the Camp dels Ninots maar (NE Spain). Geologica Acta 10(1):1-17 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |