Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Abundant crocodylian fossil remains from the Early Miocene locality of Monte la Pila, which have not been studied previously, are described here. This fossil site is located in the municipality of Lardero, a few kilometers from Logroño (La Rioja, Spain), in the Ebro Basin (late Aquitanian–early Burdigalian). The recovered material includes one hundredand twenty-one disarticulated and isolated specimens. Despite the incompleteness of the remains, certain diagnostic features within the genus Diplocynodon are unambiguouslyrecognized in the studied material. Based on the identification of some of these characters, the material has been assigned to Diplocynodon sp. This assignment confirms the presence of this taxon in the late Aquitanian–early Burdigalian of the Iberian Peninsula.It also provides valuable data on the anatomical characteristics and distribution of the crocodile fauna on the Iberian Peninsula during the Lower Miocene.
Source: Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
DOI: 10.7203/sjp.30395
Authors: Alfonso Palazuelos, Iván Narváez Padilla, Jose María Hernández, Xabier Murelaga
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413960767