Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region, France (43.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ravin de Ratavoux Formation, MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• MN 12, Middle Turolian, Upper Miocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; blue claystone and lignite
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: P. Mein and J. Michaux. 1979. Une faune de petits mammiferes d'age Turolien moyen (Miocene superieur) a Cucuron (Vaucluse); donnees nouvelles sur le genre Stephanomys (Rodentia) et consequences stratigraphiques. Géobios 12(3):481-485 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37047: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 25.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Mammalia | |
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977 pika | |
Ruscinomys schaubi, "Kowalskia sp." = Neocricetodon
Ruscinomys schaubi rodent
"Kowalskia sp." = Neocricetodon Schaub 1934 rodent | |
Occitanomys adroveri, "Parapodemus barbarae" = Parapodemus gaudryi barbarae
Occitanomys adroveri Thaler 1966 mouse
"Parapodemus barbarae" = Parapodemus gaudryi barbarae van de Weerd 1976 mouse | |
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse | |
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel | |
Ictitherium sp. Wagner 1848 hyaena | |
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Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole
Desmana aff. pontica Schreuder 1940 Russian desman
Desmanella crusafonti Rümke 1974 mole | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew |