Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (42.8° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• The rodent assemblage suggests that this collection is the youngest in the Pliocene of southern France.

Environment/lithology: karst

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: The rodent assemblage suggests that this collection is the youngest in the Pliocene of southern France.

Primary reference: B. Bachelet, J.-P. Aguilar, M. Calvet and J. Michaux. 1990. Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocene des Pyrenees-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938). Géobios 23(1):117-120 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32112: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 05.06.2003

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