Mirador de la Trava (Permian to of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (42.3° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Unidad Roja Superior Formation, Wordian to Wordian (266.9 - 259.5 Ma)

• Age compiled from Mujal et al. (2016) for biostratigraphy and Lloret et al. (2021) for radiometry.

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, red, muddy siltstone

• The vertebrate bone remains were found in a mudstone-siltstone layer,with rhizolits and root traces in its topmost part and deeply amalgamated by intense bioturbation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Mujal, N. Gretter, A. Ronchi, J. López-Gómez, J. Falconnet, J. B. Diez, R. De Horra, A. Bolet, O. Oms, A. Arche, J. F. Barrenechea, J.-S. Steyer, and J. Fortuny. 2016. Constraining the Permian/Triassic transition in continental environments: Stratigraphic and paleontological record from the Catalan Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 445:18-37 [J. Falconnet/J. Falconnet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230352: authorized by Jocelyn Falconnet, entered by Jocelyn Falconnet on 11.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Caseasauria - Caseidae
cf. Ennatosaurus tecton Efremov 1956 synapsid
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