Los Mansuetos (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as LM

Where: Aragon, Spain (40.3° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Alfambra Formation, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• Middle Turolian, MN12. late Miocene. LM is above LM2 in the stratigraphic column.

Environment/lithology:

• 'A thick succession of red clays with some sand and conglomerate beds of the Peral Formation is followed by the Alfambra formation. The base of the Alfambra formation is a 2.5m thick bed of limestone mottled with gypsum. This is followed by 7.5m of brown-reddish clays and 7m of limy marl with abundant gypsum, 3m of calcareous gypsum and 0.6m of limestone, 15m of reddish sandy clay with some sand and conglomerate beds, 12.8m of gypsum and limestone with some clayey and marly intervals. One of these intervals corresponds to the Los Mansuetos 2 locality, it is a 0.3m thick lens of marl with pebbles of Neogene rocks, bone fragments and molluscs. Then follows a marly interval of 5.5m with on top a 40cm thick level of unsorted Neogene rock pebbles, bone fragments, debris of molluscs and plant remains, representing the classical locality of Los Mansuetos (LM). The section continues with about 43m of gypsum, limestones and poorly exposed clays.'

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• material held in the collections of Geologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht.

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn and P. Mein. 1968. On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part V. The Sciurinae. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology 71(1):73-90 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35339: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.12.2003, edited by Mark Uhen and Lars van den Hoek Ostende

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Los Mansuetos is the type site for the Turolian, and contains both small and large mammal remains.
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
"Dibolia turolense" = Archaeodesmana turolense3
"Dibolia turolense" = Archaeodesmana turolense3 Rümke 1985 mole
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
"Plioviverrops guerini" = Gansuyaena guerini2 Villalta and Crusafont Pairo 1945 hyaena
Lycyaena sp.2 Hensel 1863 hyaena
Adcrocuta eximia2 Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus giganteus2 Wagner 1848 cat
upper teeth: 1 canine, P4 and P3 fragments. Lower teeth: 1 canine, 1 P3 fragment.
Metailurus parvulus2 Hensel 1862 cat
1 lower left P4.
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
"Enhydriodon lluecai" = Paludolutra lluecai1, Baranogale adroveri2
"Enhydriodon lluecai" = Paludolutra lluecai1 Villalta Comella and Crusafont Pairó 1945 otter
Baranogale adroveri2 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cipio2 Crusafont-Pairó 1950 canine
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ruscinomys schaubi6, "Kowalskia fahlbuschi" = Neocricetodon fahlbuschi6
"Kowalskia fahlbuschi" = Neocricetodon fahlbuschi6 Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Parapodemus adroveri n. sp." = Occitanomys (Rhodomys) adroveri6, "Valerymys turoliensis n. sp." = Huerzelerimys turoliensis6, Parapodemus gaudryi6
"Parapodemus adroveri n. sp." = Occitanomys (Rhodomys) adroveri6 Thaler 1966 mouse
"Valerymys turoliensis n. sp." = Huerzelerimys turoliensis6 Michaux 1969 mouse
Parapodemus gaudryi6 Dames 1883 mouse
Parapodemus gaudryi barbarae n. subsp.
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys truci6 Mein and Michaux 1970 dormouse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Aves
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto balearica4 Mourer-Chauvire et al. 1980 barn owl
 Passeriformes -
Passerida indet.4 Sibley et al. 1988 songbird
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Palaeortyx joleaudi4 Ennouchi 1930 pheasant
 Charadriiformes - Recurvirostridae
Recurvirostra teruelensis4 de Villalta 1963 avocet