Cuesta del Rey-1 (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 3.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.1° N, 1.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 7 + 8 mammal zone, Villatoro Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• attributed to the Villatoro facies; 20 meters above Cuesta del Rey-3

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and siltstone

• yellow and ochre sand, silts and clays

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve

• 150 kg of sediment were screenwashed with different mesh sizes, the smallest of which

•was 0.5 mm

Primary reference: C. Sesé and J. Morales. 2017. Late Aragonian mammal sites of Cuesta del Rey (Duero Basin, Burgos, Spain). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 32(1):63-78 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197676: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 21.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Armantomys cf. tricristatus
Armantomys cf. tricristatus López 1977 dormouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Democricetodon sp." = Copemys, Hispanomys sp., Megacricetodon minor, Megacricetodon ibericus
"Democricetodon sp." = Copemys Wood 1936 rodent
Hispanomys sp. Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent
Megacricetodon minor Lartet 1851 rodent
Megacricetodon ibericus Schaub 1944 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Heteroxerus sp.
Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 squirrel
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
cf. Miosorex sp.
cf. Miosorex sp. Kretzoi 1959 shrew