Puente de los Franceses: Langhian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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cf. Paleotestudo antiqua
(Bronn 1831)
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Pérez-García 2017 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Testudo antiqua | ||||||||||
| two plates, MNCN 48293 and MNCN 48294, corresponding to a partial nuchal and a partial peripheral | ||||||||||
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Titanochelon bolivari
(Hernandez-Pacheco 1917)
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| MNCN collection (four specimens, Fig. 23B) 48285, ilium fragment; 48296, acromion; 48297, osteoderm; 48298, osteoderm. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 3.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 5.0° 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: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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: | 187341 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-07-21 14:17:36 | Last modified: | 2017-07-21 14:17:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-07-21 14:17:36 |
| 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] |