Horta das Tripas: Burdigalian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Brachyodus onoideus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratorhinus tagicus
spelled with current rank as Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus)
Spelled Cerathorhinus in ref. 9820. Describer of the species: Roman
Brachypotherium aff. aurelianense Nouel 1866
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Lisbon County:Lisbon city
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 9.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 10.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:15 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Unnamed Local bed:Burdigalian I
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Burdigalian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36617
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-08 01:53:36 Last modified:2018-11-16 17:10:44
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-08 01:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9820.5% 45680G. Zbyszewski. 1949. Les vertebres du Burdigalien superieur de Lisbonne. Services Geologiques du Portugal, Direction Generale des Mines et Services Geologiques (Lisbonne) 1-77 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]