Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.5° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Vallès Penedès basin Group, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Locality ACM/C3-A7 is correlated to subchron C5r.3r, ca. 11.9 Ma (late Aragonian, close to the Middle to Late Miocene boundary).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, sandy, conglomeratic mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve

• IPS: Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Primary reference: R. Carmona, D. M. Alba, M. Delfino, J. M. Robles, C. Rotgers, J. V. Bertó Mengual, J. Balaguer, J. Galindo, and S. Moyà-Solà. 2010. Snake fossil remains from the middle Miocene stratigraphic series of Abocador de Can Mata (Els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain). Cidaris 30:77-84 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199604: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 05.02.2019, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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