Quinta das Pedreiras, Lisbon (Miocene of Portugal)

Where: Lisbon, Portugal (38.7° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 10.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Lower Burdigalian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes. 1969. Mamiferos nao marinhos do Miocenico de Lisboa: ecologia e estratigrafia (nota preliminar). Boletim da Sociedade Geologica do Portugal, Lisboa 17:75-85 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35985: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 13.01.2004, edited by Jason Head and Lars van den Hoek Ostende

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Taxonomic list

• certainly incomplete
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Praearmantomys ginsburgi n. sp." = Praearmantomys crusafonti1
"Praearmantomys ginsburgi n. sp." = Praearmantomys crusafonti1 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.2 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"non-natricine" (Szyndlar & Alférez, 2005)
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera sp.2 Laurenti 1768 pit viper
"'Oriental vipers' complex"; identified as "Vipéridé indet." by Antunes & Rage (1974)
 Squamata - Boidae
cf. Bavarioboa sp.3 Szyndlar and Schleich 1993 boa
identified as "boidé indet." by Antunes & Rage (1974)