Tortugas y sirenios fósiles en el Eoceno marino de Navarra y Cuenca de Jaca

We report several remains of turtles and sirenians from the marine Eocene (Bartonian) of the Pamplona Area (Navarre) and Santa Cilia de Jaca (Huesca), South Pyrenean Basin. Turtles are represented by fragmentary neural plates and sirenians consist of two caudal vertebrae. All this material is not di...

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Authors: Astibia, H., Murelaga, Xabier, Payros, Aitor, Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier, Tosquella Angrill, Josep
Format: article
Publication Date:1998
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repository:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/10203
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10203
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Marin tetrapods
Eocene
South Pyrenean Basin
Paleobiogeography
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Summary:We report several remains of turtles and sirenians from the marine Eocene (Bartonian) of the Pamplona Area (Navarre) and Santa Cilia de Jaca (Huesca), South Pyrenean Basin. Turtles are represented by fragmentary neural plates and sirenians consist of two caudal vertebrae. All this material is not diagnostic and is here referred to as Chelonii indet. and Sirenia indet. respectively. This is the first report of marine tetrapod fossils in the Eocene of Navarre. Current palaeogeographic data suggest that the connexion between the Atlantic and Mediterranean faunal provinces was probably not made across the Pyrenean Gulf, but following the southern area of the Iberian Plate