Cerro de Batallones 10 (BAT10): MN 10, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Hipparioninae indet.
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Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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| "very large terrestrial tortoises" | ||||||||||
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= cf. Cheirogaster sp.
Bergounioux 1935
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Perez-Garcia and Murelaga 2013 | |||||||||
| complete carapaces (BAT-10’08-G3-116) | ||||||||||
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= Titanochelon sp.
Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Decennatherium rex n. sp.
Rios et al. 2017
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Moschidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Madrid |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 3.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.4° North, 4.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | MN 10 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.70000 - 8.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: collections held at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, Spain). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 197661 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-11-21 18:08:12 | Last modified: | 2018-11-21 18:08:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-11-21 18:08:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67395. | M. Rios, I. M. Sanchez, and J. Morales. 2017. A new giraffid (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) from the late Miocene of Spain, and the evolution of the sivathere-samothere lineage. PLoS ONE 12(e0185378):1-59 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 70350 | A. Perez-Garcia and X. Murelaga. 2013. Las tortugas del Vallesiense superior del Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, España): nuevos datos sobre el escasamente conocido género Paleotestudo. Ameghiniana 50(3):335-353 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 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] |