Barranc de Can Vila: MN 7 + 8, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus n. gen., n. sp. Moyà-Solà et al. 2004
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion aff. leemani
Democricetodon larteti
Democricetodon gaillardi Schaub 1925
Cricetodon sp. Lartet 1851
Megacricetodon minor Lartet 1851
"Megacricetodon minor debruijni"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus sansaniensis Lartet 1856
Glirudinus undosus Mayr 1979
Paraglirulus werenfelsi Engesser 1972
Bransatoglis sp. Hugueney 1967
Microdyromys complicatus De Bruijn 1966
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Albanensia albanensis (Major 1893)
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Cervidae
Euprox furcatus Hensel 1859
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon splendens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo richardi n. sp. Bergounioux 1938
Bergounioux 1938
synonym of Titanochelon bolivari
Holotype lost
Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica (Bataller 1926)
Lujan et al. 2016
synonym of Testudo antiqua
IPS16441, Proximal fragment of left femur
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cataluña
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 1.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° North, 0.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:MN 7 + 8
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: from "the lowermost part of the MN 7/8 bioestratigraphic unit" (sic)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Institut de Paleontologia M. Crusafont collection
apparently a new collection made much more recently than the classic Hostalets de Pierola collections
Metadata
Also known as:BCV1; Els Hostalets de Pierola
Database number:92640
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Tennant, E. Vlachos
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-20 11:13:21 Last modified:2009-11-20 13:15:36
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-20 11:13:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31215. S. Moyà-Solà, M. Köhler, D. M. Alba, I. Casanovas-Vilar, and J. Galindo. 2004. Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain. Science 306:1339-1344 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

60890 F. M. Bergounioux. 1938. Chéloniens fossiles d´Espagne. Bulletin de la Société d´histoire naturelle de Toulouse 73:257-288 [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]
69991 A. H. Lujan, M. Delfino, J. M. Robles and D. M. Alba. 2016. The Miocene tortoise Testudo catalaunica Bataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]