Barberapithecus huerzeleri - type locality (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.5° N, 2.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 0.9° E)

When: Aragonian mammal zone, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D.M. Alba and S. Moyà-Solà. 2012. A New Pliopithecid Genus (Primates: Pliopithecoidea) From Castell de Barberà (Vallès‐Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147(1):88-112 [G. Slater/A. Wisniewski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201475: authorized by Graham Slater, entered by Anna Wisniewski on 08.05.2019, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Pliopithecidae
Barberapithecus huerzeleri Alba and Moyà-Solà 2012 monkey
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica" = Paleotestudo antiqua
"Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica" = Paleotestudo antiqua Bronn 1831 turtle
IPS33180: Associated but disarticulated nuchal plate and left peripheral plates 1–3; IPS36396a is a nearly complete, but somewhat distorted shell, 1.65 cm long and 1.36 cm wide