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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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

Primary reference: A. H. Lujan, M. Delfino, J. M. Robles and D. M. Alba. 2016. The Miocene tortoise Testudo catalaunica Bataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204221: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.09.2019

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