Also known as Baixas'
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (42.5° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 1.7° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Zone D, 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 36977: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 21.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hispanomys mediterraneus, Democricetodon sulcatus, "Kowalskia fahlbuschi" = Neocricetodon fahlbuschi, Cricetulodon hartenbergeri, Rotundomys montisrotundi
Hispanomys mediterraneus rodent
Democricetodon sulcatus Freudenthal 1967 rodent
"Kowalskia fahlbuschi" = Neocricetodon fahlbuschi Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 rodent
Cricetulodon hartenbergeri Freudenthal 1967 rodent
Rotundomys montisrotundi Schaub 1944 rodent | |
Anomalomys cf. gaillardi Viret and Schaub 1947 rodent | |
Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 squirrel
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel | |
Muscardinus hispanicus de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse | |
Progonomys cathalai Schaub 1938 mouse
Progonomys cf. woelferi Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 mouse |