Also known as Vial Intern d’Explotacio
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 204224: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica" = Paleotestudo antiqua
"Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica" = Paleotestudo antiqua Bronn 1831 turtle IPS30061, Partial plastron
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