Les Cases de Valenciana: Burdigalian, Spain
collected by Crusafont, ICP 1950, 2012-2016
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Boidae
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cf. Python sp.
Daudin 1803
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Reptilia
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Diplocynodon cf. ratelii
Pomel 1847
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Ptychogaster cf. emydoides
Pomel 1847
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Titanochelon cf. bolivari
(Hernandez-Pacheco 1917)
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Catalonia | County: | Gelida, Alt Penedes |
| Coordinates: | 41.4° North, 1.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 0.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: The recorded herpetofauna suggests various ecological environments: arid landscapes with open woodland are inferred for the heliophile testudinid; a riparian forest for the semiaquatic ptychogasterine; as well as a small and shallow lake, indicated by the presence of the small alligatoroid. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Crusafont, ICP | Collection dates: | 1950, 2012-2016 |
| Taxonomic list comments:According to the rodent fauna, the age of the site is constrained between 16.3-16.0 Ma | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 205815 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2019-10-23 12:54:15 | Last modified: | 2019-10-23 12:54:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-10-23 12:54:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 70584. | A. H. Lujan, D. deMiguel, M. Ivanov, J. Madurell-Malapeira, S. Jovells-Vaque and I. Casanovas-Vilar. 2017. Paleoherpetofauna from the Early Miocene Locality of Les Cases de la Valenciana (Catalonia, Spain). Ziteliana 91:55-55 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |