Camp dels Ninots, Can Argilera Sector (Pliocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.8° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: crater lake; gray, green mudstone and gray, green sandstone

• This volcano was first identified by Vehí et al. (1999) who described and identified the Camp dels Ninots strata as lake sediments filling the crater. The new palaeontological data reported herein come from the lacustrine beds of this maar. According to substrate features, this volcano can be classified as a soft-substrate maar lake (Lorenz, 2000).
• Green and green-grayish mudstones and sandstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: All the remains are provisionally stored in the collections of the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social at Tarragona.

Primary reference: B. Gomez de Soler, G. Campeny Vall-Llosera, J. Made, O. Oms, J. Agusti, R. Sala, H.-A. Blain, F. Burjachs, J. Claude, S. Garcia Catalan, D. Riba and R. Rosillo. 2012. A new key locality for the Pliocene vertebrate record of Europe: the Camp dels Ninots maar (NE Spain). Geologica Acta 10(1):1-17 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193557: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
Pelophylax cf. perezi
Pelophylax cf. perezi Frost et al. 2006 frog
Articulated specimens. Codes: “CN”05 - 08.
 Caudata - Urodela
cf. Pleurodeles sp., Lissotriton aff. helveticus
cf. Pleurodeles sp. Michahelles 1830 newt
5 isolated vertebrae. Code: “CN”08.
Lissotriton aff. helveticus newt
Articulated specimen. Code: “CN”05.
Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys leprosa
Mauremys leprosa Schweigger 1812 Mediterranean pond turtle
Articulated skeletons. Code: “CN”05
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 tapir
one complete articulated skeleton. Code: “CN”08
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alephis tigneresi
Alephis tigneresi Michaux et al. 1991 antelope
skeletons
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus atavus
Apodemus atavus Eurasian field mouse