Level C1, Quarry Quinta da Noiva (Miocene of Portugal)

Where: Lisbon, Portugal (38.7° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 10.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Upper Burdigalian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, micaceous, white, yellow sandstone

• yellow to white sands, cross stratified, containing micas.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Zbyszewski. 1949. Les vertebres du Burdigalien superieur de Lisbonne. Services Geologiques du Portugal, Direction Generale des Mines et Services Geologiques (Lisbonne) 1-77 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36631: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 08.02.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Brachyodus onoideus anthracothere
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx kaupi von Meyer 1834 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Lagomerycidae
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Procervulus dichotomus Gervais 1849 deer
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Trilophodon angustidens" = Tetrabelodon angustidens, "Trilophodon olisiponense n. sp." = Gomphotherium
"Trilophodon angustidens" = Tetrabelodon angustidens Cuvier 1806 gomphothere
"Trilophodon olisiponense n. sp." = Gomphotherium gomphothere
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet., "Gavialosuchus americanus" = Thecachampsa sericodon
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
"Gavialosuchus americanus" = Thecachampsa sericodon Cope 1867 crocodilian
G. americanus lusitanicus