Armantes: Miocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon cf. sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Megacricetodon rafaeli n. sp. Daams and Freudenthal 1988
Daams and Freudenthal 1988
Democricetodon cf. gaillardi Schaub 1925
Freudenthal 1967
from level IX
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Zaragoza
Coordinates: 41.0° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 2.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Vindobonian (Grivensis Zone, de Bruijn, 1965)
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial 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:Armantes VII
Database number:35875
Authorizer:J. Alroy, L. van den Hoek Ostende Enterer:E. Leckey, L. van den Hoek Ostende
Modifier:L. van den Hoek Ostende Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-01-08 13:44:57 Last modified:2008-02-16 13:45:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-08 13:44:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

26484 R. Daams and M. Freudenthal. 1988. Cricetidae from the type-Aragonian; the genus Megacricetodon. Scripta Geologica Special Issue 1:39-132 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
93085% 41400M. Freudenthal. 1967. On the mammalian fauna of the Hipparion Beds in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Prov. Zaragoza, Spain) Part II Democricetodon and Rotundomys (Rodentia). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology 70(30):298-315 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]