Sant Miquel de Toudell (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.6° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Valles-Penedes basin Group, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Hoffstetter. 1969. Présence de Varanidae (Reptilia, Sauria) dans le Miocène de Catalogne. Considérations sur l’histoire de la famille. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 40:1051-1064 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176268: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 05.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The taxonpomic list listed in Hoffstetter (1969) is said to be obtained from a personal letter from M. Crusafont fromn 1967 (see pag. 1055)
Reptilia
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus cf. hoffmanni Roger 1898 monitor lizard
One dorsal vertebra, not numbered (Catalan Institute of Paleontology museum)
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Turicius turicensis" = Zygolophodon
"Turicius turicensis" = Zygolophodon mastodon
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831 deinothere
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion catalaunicum hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Rhinoceros" sp. Linnaeus 1758 one-horned rhinoceros
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suide (cf. Hyotherium) sp. von Meyer 1834 pig
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Micromeryx flourensianus Lartet 1851 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Protragocerus sp. Deperet 1887 antelope
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon sp. Lartet 1851 mouse