Masia del Barbo 2A: Vallesian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Progonomys hispanicus van der Weerd 1976
94 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon sp. Lartet 1851
Freudenthal 1966
Hispanomys peralensis van de Weerd 1976
36 specimens
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964
1 specimen
1 upper M2.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Tempestia hartenbergeri (de Bruijn 1966)
9 specimens
Eliomys hartenbergeri n. sp. de Bruijn 1966
de Bruijn 1966
recombined as Tempestia hartenbergeri
not specified whether Masia del Barbo II A or B
Muscardinus (Muscardinus) crusafonti Hartenberger 1966
5 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragon
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 3.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Vallesian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 8.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Alfambra
Local section:Masia del Barbo
Regional section:Teruel-Alfambra
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Vallesian, Miocene, MN10.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'the lowermost grey clay of about 30cm thick contains bones and teeth. This is the Masio del Barbo 2A site (MBA).
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Material stored in the collection of the Geologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht.
Taxonomic list comments:Spermophilinus turolensis is recorded by reference 9679 as being present in Masia del Barbo, but it is not specified whether it is from level IIA or IIB.
Metadata
Also known as:MBA
Database number:35301
Authorizer:A. Turner, J. Alroy Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Leckey
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-11-26 07:44:26 Last modified:2004-01-15 12:23:35
Access level:the public Released:2003-11-26 07:44:26
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]

Secondary references:

9385 H. de Bruijn. 1966. On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part II. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 69(3):367-387 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
9640 M. Freudenthal. 1966. On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion-Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part I. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology 67(5):296-317 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]