Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.4° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Miocene Lower Continental Complex Formation (Valles-Penedes basin Group), MN 4 (16.9 - 16.0 Ma)

• "An MN4 age (i.e., circa 17–16 Ma; Agustí et al. 2001) has been customarily given to CMA (Agustí et al. 1985; Fortelius 2011), which is consistent with the presence of Gomphotherium angustidens(cited by Crusafont et al. 1955), although this taxon does not exclude an earlier, MN3 age (Agustí et al. 2001; Casanovas ;Vilar et al. 2011a). Further refinement is precluded by the lack of;sociated rodents. An attribution to MN4 would also be supported by the record of Eotragus reported by Fortelius (2011). However, an inspection of the available macromammalian fossils from CMA housed at the ICP yielded no remains of the bovid Eotragus. Interestingly a single mandibular fragment of the paleomerycid Lagomeryx (DMA, personal observations), was located, but does not discriminate between MN3 and MN4" (from Delfino et al., 2013)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Delfino, J. C. Rage, A. Bolet and D. M. Alba. 2013. Early Miocene dispersal of the lizard Varanus into Europe: Reassessment of vertebral material from Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4):731-735 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176265: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 04.02.2016, edited by Mark Uhen

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