San Juan (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Huesca, Spain (42.1° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 2.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 2 (22.4 - 20.0 Ma)

• Alvarez-Sierra et al. (1991) did not assign an MN-zone. The designation given here is based on the comparison of the San Juan fauna to those of Bouzigues and Laugnac.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: M. A. Alvarez Sierra, R. Daams, J. I. Lacomba, N. Lopez Martinez, A. J. Van Der Meulen, C. Sese, and J. De Visser. 1991. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy (micromammals) of the continental Oligocene-Miocene deposits of the North-Central Ebro Basin (Huesca, Spain). Scripta Geologica 94:1-77 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67192: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 13.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887 rodent
Pseudotheridomys sp. Schlosser 1926 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon sp. Thaler 1966 mouse
Eucricetodon aff. aquitanicus Baudelot and de Bonis 1968 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Peridyromys murinus Pomel 1853 dormouse
Peridyromys turbatus n. sp. Alvarez Sierra et al. 1991 dormouse
Quercomys daamsi n. sp. Alvarez Sierra et al. 1991 dormouse