Where: Spain (43.0° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 4.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Level with lacustrine carbonate concretions

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, concretionary claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: collection of J. Fernandez de Pinedo, Vitoria (Alava)

Primary reference: A. Arillo and V. M. Ortuño. 1997. The fossil Acrididae from the Oligocene of Izarra (Alava, Spain). The antiquity of gregarious behavior (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Geobios 30:231-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189951: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.11.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham

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