Masada del Valle 3: Turolian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Parapodemus gaudryi
(Dames 1883)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| Parapodemus gaudryi barbarae n. subsp. | ||||||||||
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Valerymys turoliensis
Michaux 1969
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16 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Huerzelerimys turoliensis | ||||||||||
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Occitanomys adroveri
(Thaler 1966)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Ruscinomys schaubi
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Aragon |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 2.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 3.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Turolian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Alfambra | ||||
| Regional section: | Teruel-Alfambra | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle Turolian, MN12, Late Miocene
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown marl |
| Lithology description: 'Exposed are about 35m of the Peral Formation, mainly consisting of red clays and red sands with some beds of conglomerate, followed in the top part by 4m of yellow sands and conglomerate and 0.8m of well sorted sand. The Alfambra Formation starts with 1m of white marly limestone with at the base some 1.5cm thick undulating black lignitic clay layers. This is followed by a not exposed interval of 1m, on top 40cm of washed and orientated marly debris of opercula of molluscs with some bone fragments and streaks of green and black clay representing the MDV2 mammal locality. Then follow 2.4m of white marly limestone with some 1-3cm thick black lignitic layers. The next 0.3m consist of dark brown marl and marly limestone containing abundant molluscs (MDV3).' | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,sieve,field collection |
| Minimum sieve size: | 0.500 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Specimens are stored at the Geologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | MDV3 | ||
| Database number: | 35317 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2003-11-28 06:01:43 | Last modified: | 2003-11-28 08:01:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-11-28 06:01:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9527. | PACED | A. van de Weerd. 1976. Rodent faunas of the Mio-Pliocene continental sediments of the Teruel-Alfambra region, Spain. Utrecht Micropalaeontological Bulletins, Special Publication 2:1-217 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/L. van den Hoek Ostende] |