Abocador de Can Mata C1-E10: Middle Miocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo (Chersine) catalaunica (Bataller 1926)
synonym of Testudo antiqua
IPS4417, Complete shell; IPS4423, Posterior portion of carapace; IPS4411, ACM/C1-E10; IPS4420, Complete shell; IPS4415, Anterior shell portion; IPS4419, Complete shell
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Catalonia County:Penedès
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 1.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 0.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene Mammal zone: MN 7
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Age estimate:12.3 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Vallès Penedès basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy,conglomeratic mudstone
Environment:alluvial fan
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: IPS: Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Metadata
Database number:204222
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-09-03 14:47:10 Last modified:2019-09-03 14:47:10
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-03 14:47:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]