Vivel del Rio: Late/Upper Oligocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus cf. margaritae Freudenthal and Martín-Suárez 2017
Freudenthal and Martín-Suárez 2017
RGM 558308-558531 and VIV 514-619
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Heterocricetodon sp. Schaub 1925
Allocricetodon aff. landroveri (Daams et al. 1989)
original and current combination Heterocricetodon landroveri
Pseudocricetodon adroveri n. sp. Freudenthal et al. 1994
Freudenthal et al. 1994
Allocricetodon cornellii
synonym of Pseudocricetodon
Eucricetodon informal sp. 1 Thaler 1966
aff. dubius but diff size
Eucricetodon dubius (Schaub 1925)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Teruel
Coordinates: 40.9° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.7° North, 3.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:942 meters
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Oligocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene Mammal zone: MP 28
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Alcorisa Member:noir?
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: a section of beds within which are recognized at least five different faunal zones. The author is supposedly in prep with a strat section and specific locality information (which was un-locatable at time of collection entry). Uncertain about formation name.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:VIV
Database number:31019
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:E. Leckey, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-04-03 16:27:59 Last modified:2017-08-29 09:21:45
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-03 16:27:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7916.5% 5980M. Freudenthal. 1994. Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Upper Oligocene of Mirambueno and Vivel del Rio (prov. Teruel, Spain). Scripta Geologica 104:1-55 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

7917 M. Freudenthal, M. Hugueney, and E. Moissenet. 1994. The genus Pseudocricetodon (Cricetidae, Mammalia) in the Upper Oligocene of the province of Teruel (Spain). Scripta Geologica 104:57-114 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]
63153 M. Freudenthal and E. Martín-Suárez. 2017. A revision of European Plesiosminthus (Rodentia, Dipodidae), and new material from the upper Oligocene of Teruel (Spain). Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):41A:1-25 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]