Abocador de Can Mata C3-A7: Middle Miocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus marathonensis
Weithofer 1888
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Villa et al. 2018 | |||||||||
| IPS57544 (from ACM/C3-A7), tooth-bearing bone | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Elapidae
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Naja sp.
Laurenti 1768
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| IPS 46481, precloacal vertebra | ||||||||||
| 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: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 11.9 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Vallès Penedès basin | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Locality ACM/C3-A7 is correlated to subchron C5r.3r, ca. 11.9 Ma (late Aragonian, close to the Middle to Late Miocene boundary). | |||||
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 methods: | sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: IPS: Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 199604 | ||
| Authorizer: | T. Cleary, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | T. Cleary, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-02-05 08:38:30 | Last modified: | 2019-02-05 08:38:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-02-05 08:38:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67853. | R. Carmona, D. M. Alba, M. Delfino, J. M. Robles, C. Rotgers, J. V. Bertó Mengual, J. Balaguer, J. Galindo, and S. Moyà-Solà. 2010. Snake fossil remains from the middle Miocene stratigraphic series of Abocador de Can Mata (Els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain). Cidaris 30:77-84 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary] |
Secondary references:
| 69946 | A. Villa, J. Abella, D. M. Alba, S. Almecija, A. Bolet, G. D. Koufos, F. Knoll, A. H. Lujan, J. Morales, J. M. Robles, I. M. Sanchez and M. Delfino. 2018. Revision of Varanus marathonensis (Squamata, Varanidae) based on historical and new material: morphology, systematics, and paleobiogeography of the European monitor lizards. PLoS ONE 13(12):1-46 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |