Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (42.5° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 1.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Zone C, Aguilar 1982.
Environment/lithology: karst
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: USTL à Montpellier
Primary reference: J.-P. Aguilar, M. Calvet, and J. Michaux. 1986. Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2, Mecanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'Univers, Sciences de la Terre 303(8):755-760 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36877: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 18.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megacricetodon collongensis Mein 1958 rodent
Democricetodon cf. mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
Melissiodon dominans Dehm 1950 rodent | |
Microdyromys koenigswaldi de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Pseudodryomys simplicidens de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Miodyromys aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse
? Prodryomys satus Mayr 1979 dormouse | |
Heteroxerus rubricati squirrel
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel |