Punta Nati, Site 2 (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as Menorca, Minorca

Where: Balearic Islands, Spain (40.1° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Similarity to the middle Miocene faunas of Mallorca (Santa Margalida and Sant Llorenç) suggests a Middle Miocene Age for Punta Nati 2.

Environment/lithology: karst; poorly lithified, red, calcareous mudstone

• Locality is part of a karst complex within Jurassic dolomites and marine Miocene sediments. The infill consists, besides the bones, of reddish mud with brecciated and pebbly carbonatic material of the surrounding rocks.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Bailon, J. Garcia-Porta, and J. Quintana-Cardona. 2002. Première découverte de Viperidae (Reptilia, Serpentes) dans les îles Baléares (Espagne): des vipères du Néogène de Minorque. Description d’une nouvelle espèce du Pliocène [The first record of viperid snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from the Balearic Islands (Spain): fossils from the Neogene, with description of a new species from the Pliocene] . Comptes Rendus Palevol 1(4):227-234 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136226: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

• Also present are a tortoise and several small reptiles and birds.
Reptilia
 Squamata - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811 viper
a single venom fang
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae sp. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotonidae sp. Thomas 1897 pika
"similar to Gymnesiolagus gelaberti"