Bergasa (Oligocene of Spain)

Also known as Ebro Basin

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.3° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 30 zone, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. J. Ruiz-Sánchez, J. I. Lacomba-Andueza, M. Freudenthal and M. A. Álvarez-Sierra. 2014. A new species of Vasseuromys (Gliridae, Mammalia) from the Upper Oligocene of the Ebro Basin (Spain). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 88:73-84 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194887: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurinae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Rhodanomys transiens Hugueney 1969 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus sp. Viret 1926 jumping mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Vasseuromys bergasensis n. sp. Ruiz-Sánchez et al. 2014 dormouse
UCM BER-150 - type
Peridyromys murinus Pomel 1853 dormouse
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae