Where: Limousin region, France (45.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 1.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• end of the Middle Pleistocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Chaline. 1972. Les rongeurs de l'Aven I des Abimes de la Fage a Noailles (Correze). Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon (10)61-78 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36439: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 29.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
"Microtus gregalis" = Microtus, "Microtus malei" = Microtus, "Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus, Microtus arvalis, Arvicola terrestris, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Dicrostonyx torquatus, Lemmus lemmus, Allocricetus bursae, Dolomys lenki
"Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Dicrostonyx torquatus Pallas 1778 Arctic lemming
Lemmus lemmus Linnaeus 1758 Norway lemming | |
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Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse | |
Marmota marmota, "Citellus cf. major" = Spermophilus
"Citellus cf. major" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |