Where: Valencia, Spain (39.5° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Los Isidros Member (Venta del Moro-Villatoya Formation), Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• MN13, Latest Miocene, Ventian. The Los Isidros member is comprised of detrital material and is 300m thick. 'The beds are deformed into anticlines and synclines of low relief with maximum dip of 16 degrees along the flanks. The fossiliferous beds occur at the core of one anticline.'

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•Magnetostratigraphic correlation of VM with chron C3An indicates an estimated age of 6.23 Ma (Gibert et al., 2013), while the mammal assemblage implies a correlation with MN13 (Mein, 1990, 1999; De Bruijn et al., 1992) and, more precisely, the Teruel local biozone M3 (van Dam et al., 2006) within the late Turolian or Ventian mammal age (Morales et al., 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red conglomerate and lignite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Mathisen and J. Morales. 1981. Stratigraphy, facies and depositional environments of the Venta del Moro vertebrate locality, Valencia, Spain. Estudios Geologicos 37:199-207 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 40758: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 30.06.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Evangelos Vlachos, Philip Mannion and Bethany Allen

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