Also known as Port la Nouvelle
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (43.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 1.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Upper Burdigalian. The biochronology places this collection between the reference faunas of Vieux-Collonges and La Romieu.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: This collection gathers in fact two loci, distant of about 5 m and that were homogeneous in terms of facies and faunal components. These two sub-collection are merged in ref. 9929, which might be the only report for this locality.
Primary reference: S. Legendre. 1982. La faune de micromammiferes du gisement burdigalien de Port-la-Nouvelle (Aude); complements et indications paleoecologiques. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 24(2):383-387 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37050: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 26.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Squamata indet. squamates | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Mammalia | |
Tadarida helveticus free-tailed bat | |
cf. Taphozous sp. Geoffroy 1818 sac-winged bat | |
Asellia mariaetheresae Mein 1958 leaf-nosed bat | |
Rhinolophus cf. grivensis Depéret 1892 horseshoe bat | |
Lagopsis penai pika
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Megacricetodon collongensis, Democricetodon aff. mutilus, Democricetodon brevis, Eumyarion aff. medius
Megacricetodon collongensis Mein 1958 rodent
Democricetodon aff. mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
Democricetodon brevis Schaub 1925 rodent
Eumyarion aff. medius Lartet 1851 rodent | |
Microdyromys praemurinus, Pseudodryomys aff. ibericus, Pseudodryomys simplicidens, Prodryomys ? satus, Glirudinus modestus
Microdyromys praemurinus Freudenberg 1941 dormouse
Pseudodryomys aff. ibericus de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Pseudodryomys simplicidens de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Prodryomys ? satus Mayr 1979 dormouse
Glirudinus modestus Dehm 1950 dormouse | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate | |
"Gymnurinae indet." = Echinosoricini, Erinaceinae indet.
"Gymnurinae indet." = Echinosoricini Cabrera 1925 hedgehog
Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
Crocidurinae indet. Milne Edwards 1874 white-toothed shrew
Soricinae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 red-toothed shrew | |
Amphiperatherium frequens von Meyer 1846 marsupial |