Where: Azambuja Municipality, Portugal (39.1° N, 8.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 10.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: MN 9 mammal zone, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García, E. Vlachos, and P. Mocho. 2017. The westernmost records of extinct large European tortoises: the presence of Titanochelon (Testudinidae) in the Miocene of Portugal. Historical Biology 29(6):854-861 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184303: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 17.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Titanochelon cf. bolivari Hernandez-Pacheco 1917 turtle |