Canales (Oligocene of Spain)

Where: Cuenca, Spain (40.1° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 5.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MP 28 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Alvarez Sierra, R. Daams, and P. Pelaez-Campomanes. 1999. The Late Oligocene rodent faunas of Canales (MP 28) and Parrales (MP 29) from the Loranca Basin, Province of Cuence, Spain. Revista Española de Paleontología 14(1):93-116 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78743: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 15.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomys cf. zitteli Schlosser 1884 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pseudocricetodon cf. adroveri Freudenthal et al. 1994 mouse
Adelomyarion sp. Hugueney 1969 mouse
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus sp. Viret 1926 jumping mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Peridyromys sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 dormouse
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Issiodoromys limognensis Schmidt-Kittler and Vianey-Liaud 1987 rodent