ammonites
Mazaterón (Eocene to of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (41.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 5.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mazaterón Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonate and sandstone

• The deposit is in carbonate facies, in small sandstone or conglomeratic lenses, extending 400 m laterally, and 5-8 m thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Jiménez Fuentes, M. A. Cuesta, S. Martín Jesús, E. Mulas, E. Pérez Ramos and S. Jiménez-García. 1989. Primera nota sobre los vertebrados del Eoceno Superior de Matazarón y Deza (Soria). Stvdia Geologica Salmanticensia 5:129-133 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40358: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 22.06.2004, edited by Albert Garcia Selles

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