Where: Balearic Islands, Spain (40.1° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 3.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• The endemic condition of the fauna makes a determination of the age of Nuralagus rex–Cheirogaster sites difficult. Nevertheless, both the close relationship of the leporid and the dormouse with continental Late Miocene Alilepus sp. and Muscardinus sp., respectively, and the karstification of the fissures in Late Miocene reef deposits allow a tentative estimation as Late Neogene (Lower Pliocene) for this fauna.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; poorly lithified, pebbly, quartzose, red, calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Quintana, S. Moyà-Solà in 1995

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: B. Segui, J. Quintana, J. J. Fornos and J. A. Alcover. 2001. A new fulmarine petrel (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the upper Miocene of the western Mediterranean. Palaeontology 44(5):933-948 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62897: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2006, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Matthew Clapham

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