La Fontana: Turolian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Sivaonyx lehmani n. sp.
Crusafont-Pairo and Golpe 1962
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Crusafont-Pairo and Golpe 1962 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Dibolia luteyni
Rümke 1985
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Rümke 1985 | ||||||
| recombined as Archaeodesmana luteyni | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neocricetodon sesae
Aquilar et al. 1995
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Freudenthal et al. 1998 | ||||||
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Ruscinomys schaubi
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Stephanomys ramblensis
van de Weerd 1976
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides problematicus
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6 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: Late Turolian, MN13, late Miocene. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black lignite |
| Lithology description: 'The fossiliferous lens is intercalated in well bedded soft white marly limestones. Its maximal thickness is about 60cm and it consists of black lignitic clay overlain by greenish clay with pebbles of Neogene rocks, bones and teeth.' | |
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 held in the collections of Geologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Rambla de Valdecebro 2, Arquillo de la Fontana, Arquillo, LF | ||
| Database number: | 35341 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner, M. Uhen, L. van den Hoek Ostende | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, L. van den Hoek Ostende, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2003-12-02 07:08:25 | Last modified: | 2003-12-03 05:35:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-12-02 07:08:25 |
| 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:
| 64096 | M. Crusafont-Pairo and J. M. Golpe. 1962. Nuevos hallazgos de lutridos aonicoides (Sivaonyx, Enhydriodon) en el Pikermiense Español (Cuenca de Teruel). Notas y comunicaciones del Instituto Geológico y Minero de España 67:5-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 19833 | M. Freudenthal, P. Mein, and E. Martín-Suárez. 1998. Revision of Late Miocene and Pliocene Cricetinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Spain and France. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 7:11-93 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/D. van Oyen] | |
| 23416 | C. G. Rümke. 1985. A review of fossil and recent Desmaninae (Talpidae, Insectivora). Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins 4:1-241 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] |