Can Missert: Vallesian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Tetralophodon sp. Falconer 1857
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Catalonia County:Barcelona
Coordinates: 41.6° North, 2.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.9° North, 3.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Altitude:215 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Vallesian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 8.725 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Vallesian, Biozone 20b"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ceramicas Terras, S.A.
Database number:38977
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Wertheim
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-18 11:42:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-18 11:42:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
10430. M. Crusafont-Pairo and J. M. Golpe-Posse. 1974. Nuevos yacimientos del Terciario continental del N.E. de España. Acta Geologica Hispánica 9:81-83 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]