Cerro de Batallones 1: MN 10, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Palaeortyx joleaudi Ennouchi 1930
Sánchez‐Marco 2021
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Paleotestudo cf. catalaunica (Bataller 1926)
Perez-Garcia and Murelaga 2013
synonym of Testudo antiqua
Varios caparazones articulados y relativamente completos, correspondientes a individuos adultos y juveniles (BAT-1’05-E3-86, BAT-1’02-E6-179, BAT-1-984, BAT-1- 4252, BAT-1-8648), así como placas desarticuladas, incluyendo periferales (BAT-1-3080) y elementos del plastrón (BAT-1- 4140)
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
cf. Palaeochelys sp. Meyer 1847
Perez-Garcia and Murelaga 2013
-Mauremys group. Elementos del caparazón desarticulados, entre los que se incluyen una placa nucal (BAT-1-8645), varias periferales (BAT-1-8647) y un hipoplastrón derecho (BAT-1-8646)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Austroportax sp. Sickenberg 1929
Sanchez et al. 2011
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Styriofelis vallesiensis Salesa et al. 2012
Salesa et al. 2012
recombined as Leptofelis vallesiensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Magericyon anceps n. gen., n. sp. Peigné et al. 2008
Peigné et al. 2008
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ailuridae
Simocyon batalleri (Viret 1929)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 3.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 10
Age range of interval:9.70000 - 8.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Articulated whole bodies:many
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:78514
Authorizer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos, M. Uhen, G. Slater Enterer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, G. Slater, P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos, M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-07 12:44:56 Last modified:2008-02-07 14:44:56
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-07 12:44:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26395. S. Peigné, M. J. Salesa, M. Antón and J. Morales. 2005. Ailurid carnivoran mammal Simocyon from the late Miocene of Spain and the systematics of the genus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):219-238 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]

Secondary references:

52566 S. Peigné, M. J. Salesa, M. Antón and J. Morales. 2008. A new amphicyonine (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the upper Miocene of Batallones-1, Madrid, Spain. Palaeontology 51(4):943-965 [M. Uhen/K. Zabielski/M. Uhen]
70350 A. Perez-Garcia and X. Murelaga. 2013. Las tortugas del Vallesiense superior del Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, España): nuevos datos sobre el escasamente conocido género Paleotestudo. Ameghiniana 50(3):335-353 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
67425 M. J. Salesa, M. Antón, J. Morales and S. Peigné. 2012. Systematics and phylogeny of the small felines (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(1):87-102 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
84958 I.M. Sanchez, V. Quiralte, and J. Morales. 2011. Presence of the bovid Austroportax in the upper Miocene fossil site of Batallones-1 (MN 10, Madrid Basin, Spain). Estudios Geológicos 67(2):637-642 [G. Slater/G. Slater]
78374 A. Sánchez‐Marco. 2021. Old and new fossil birds from the Spanish Miocene. Journal of Iberian Geology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
84957 O. Sickenberg. 1929. Eine neue Antilope Obermiozän Niederösterreichs. Paleobiologica 2:62-86 [G. Slater/G. Slater]