Cerro del Viso (Z-11): Lutetian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Reptilia
"Asiatosuchus" sp. Mook 1940
Ortega et al. 2022
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847
Ortega et al. 2022
Iberosuchus sp. Antunes 1975
Ortega et al. 2022
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Ortega et al. 2022
Reptilia - Testudines
Allaeochelys sp. Noulet 1867
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys aff. salmanticensis (Jimenez 1971)
Lapparent de Broin 2003
    = Neochelys sp. Bergounioux 1954
Ortega et al. 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Zamora
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 5.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 8.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Entrala
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Lutetian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:El Viso, Madridanos
Database number:45237
Authorizer:J. Alroy, D. Nicholson, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Wertheim, D. Nicholson, G. Varnham
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-14 16:06:31 Last modified:2022-03-23 09:34:55
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-14 16:06:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11746. E. Jimenez Fuentes. 1977. Sinopsis sobre los yacimientos fosilíferos paleógenos de la privincia de Zamora. Boletín Geológico y Minero 88:357-364 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]

Secondary references:

58692 F. Lapparent de Broin. 2003. Neochelys sp. (Chelonii, Erymnochelyinae), from Silveirinha, early Eocene, Portugal. Ciencias da Terra (UNL) 15:117-132 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
80949 F. Ortega, I. Armenteros, A. Celis, F. Escaso, P. Huerta, S. M. Jesús, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, and J. L. Sanz. 2022. Crocodyliformes and Testudines from the Eocene of the Duero Basin (northwestern Spain): an update of their diversity and stratigraphic context. Historical Biology 34(8):1560-1581 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]