Tendruy (Paleocene of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 0.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MP 6 mammal zone, Tremp Group, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: N. López-Martínez and P. Peláez-Campomanes. 1999. New mammals from south-central Pyrenees (Tremp Formation, Spain) and their bearing on late Paleocene marine-continental correlations. Bulletin de la Societé Géologique de France 170(5):681-696 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79306: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
"Microhyus cf. musculus" = Teilhardimys musculus, Paschatherium cf. dolloi
"Microhyus cf. musculus" = Teilhardimys musculus Kretzoi and Kretzoi 2000 odd-toed ungulate
Paschatherium cf. dolloi Teilhard de Chardin 1927 odd-toed ungulate
 Placentalia -
Condylarthra indet. Cope 1881 placental
 Theriamorpha - Adapisoriculidae
Afrodon ivani n. sp. López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes 1999 eutherian