Vallecas: Langhian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Titanochelon bolivari (Hernandez-Pacheco 1917)
MNCN collection (six specimens, Figs 10–13) 73209, cervical vertebra; 73210, cervical vertebra; 73211, acromion; 73212, coracoid; 73213, plastron; 73214, carapace;
cf. Paleotestudo antiqua (Bronn 1831)
Pérez-García 2017
original and current combination Testudo antiqua
fi ve plates, some of them are complete but others are partial elements, corresponding to the carapace of one or, probably (taking into account the differences in the size and preservation between the specimens),at least two individuals. All of them are numbered as MNCN 49181
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 3.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 4.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian Mammal zone: MN 5
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late Aragonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MNCN
Metadata
Database number:187337
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-07-21 14:03:19 Last modified:2017-07-21 14:11:06
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-21 14:03:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60876. A. Pérez-García and E. Vlachos. 2014. New generic proposal for the European Neogene large testudinids (Cryptodira) and the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the medium and large representatives of the European Cenozoic record. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:653-719 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

65661 A. Pérez-García. 2017. Analysis of the Iberian Aragonian record of Paleotestudo, and refutation of the validity of the Spanish ‘Testudo catalaunica’ and the French ‘Paleotestudo canetotiana’. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31(2):321-340 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]