Quarry Quinta da Trindade: Burdigalian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Halitherium sp. Kaup 1838
    = Sirenia indet.
Prista et al. 2023
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium aurelianense Nouel 1866
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Brachyodus onoideus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Trilophodon angustidens (Cuvier 1806)
recombined as Tetrabelodon angustidens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon pyrenaicus
Z. pyrenaicus aurelianense
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
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 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Unnamed Regional bed:Burdigalian IVb
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Burdigalian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Feeding/predation traces:drill holes
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36633
Authorizer:E. Fara, M. Uhen Enterer:E. Fara, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-08 06:59:18 Last modified:2023-10-13 13:53:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-08 06:59:18
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]

Secondary references:

86069 G. Prista, M. Cachão, and M. Estevens. 2023. Considerations on the Portuguese Sirenia (Mammalia) fossil record. Journal of Iberian Geology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]