Where: Majorca (Mallorca), Spain (39.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 3.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Paleomagnetochronology suggests an age between 1.8 Ma and 1.64 Ma. Segui (2001) states that the outcrop is located "near the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary or in the Lower Pleistocene". The three levels of karstic infilling are named according to Alcover et al (1981).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; poorly lithified, red, conglomeratic siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: the material described by Segui (2001) is said to come from "several excavations carried out in the 1970s".

Primary reference: C. Mourer-Chauvire, J. A. Alcover, S. Moya and J. Pons. 1980. Une nouvelle forme insulaire d'effraie geante, Tyto balearica n. sp. (Aves, Strigiformes), du Plio-Pleistocene des Baleares. Geobios 13(5):803-811 [E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68813: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 08.02.2007

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