Ainsa Basin Locality A30 (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Huesca, Spain (42.3° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sobrarbe Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• age given as middle to late Lutetian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Pérez-García, X. Murelaga, J. Cardiel Lalueza, A. Badiola, and E. Díaz-Berenguer. 2013. Presence of several clades of continental turtles in the Lutetian (Middle Eocene) of the Sobrarbe Formation (Ainsa Basin, South-Central Pyrenees, Northeast Spain). Geologica Belgica 16(4):311-319 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179886: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 03.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Allaeochelys sp. Noulet 1867 turtle