Millas: Pliocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor praefiber
Deperet 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Castor fiber | ||||||||||
| a skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Languedoc-Roussillon Region | County: | Pyrenees Orientales departement |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 2.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 2.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 92 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Regional bed: | Argiles bleues paisanciennes marines |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | blue claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: blue clays | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36104 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara | Enterer: | E. Fara |
| Modifier: | E. Fara | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-13 23:18:45 | Last modified: | 2004-01-14 01:18:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-13 23:18:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9687. | 5% 41160 | M. Hugueney and P. Mein. 1966. Les rongeurs pliocenes du Roussillon dans les collections lyonnaises. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte de Sciences de Lyon 13(N.S.):243-266 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |