Tegelen small mammals (Pleistocene of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (51.3° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 6.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 17 (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 2003. Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Upper Pliocene of Tegelen (province of Limburg, The Netherlands). Scripta Geologica 126:203-215 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68018: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 23.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Glirulus pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus Heller 1936 Japanese dormouse
Muscardinus pliocaenicus Kowalski 1963 dormouse
advanced form
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Galemys kormosi Schreuder 1940 Pyrenean desman
Desmana thermalis Kormos 1930 Russian desman