Barberapithecus huerzeleri - type locality: Miocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica (Bataller 1926)
Lujan et al. 2016
synonym of Testudo antiqua
IPS33180: Associated but disarticulated nuchal plate and left peripheral plates 1–3; IPS36396a is a nearly complete, but somewhat distorted shell, 1.65 cm long and 1.36 cm wide
Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Barberapithecus huerzeleri Alba and Moyà-Solà 2012
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Catalonia
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 2.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 0.9° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene Mammal zone: Aragonian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:201475
Authorizer:G. Slater, E. Vlachos Enterer:A. Wisniewski, E. Vlachos
Modifier:A. Wisniewski
Created:2019-05-08 11:21:47 Last modified:2019-05-08 11:23:08
Access level:the public Released:2019-05-08 11:21:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

68741. D.M. Alba and S. Moyà-Solà. 2012. A New Pliopithecid Genus (Primates: Pliopithecoidea) From Castell de Barberà (Vallès‐Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147(1):88-112 [G. Slater/A. Wisniewski]

Secondary references:

69991 A. H. Lujan, M. Delfino, J. M. Robles and D. M. Alba. 2016. The Miocene tortoise Testudo catalaunica Bataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]