Also known as Teruel
Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.2° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 3.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: MNCN
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García. 2017. Analysis of the Iberian Aragonian record of Paleotestudo, and refutation of the validity of the Spanish ‘Testudo catalaunica’ and the French ‘Paleotestudo canetotiana’. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31(2):321-340 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193246: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Paleotestudo antiqua Bronn 1831 turtle nine elements, corresponding to a partial hyoplastron and eight generally complete plates of the carapace. All elements are disjointed. They correspond to, at least, two individuals of relatively small size, one of them being smaller than the other. All these specimens are numbered as MNCN 35679
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