Pedregueras II C (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 2.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35877: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 08.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon minor3, "Rotundomys hartenbergeri n. sp." = Cricetulodon hartenbergeri3, "Cricetodon decedens" = Cricetodon (Hispanomys) decedens, Megacricetodon debruijni n. sp.4
Democricetodon minor3 Lartet 1851 mouse
D. minor sulcatus nov. subsp.
"Rotundomys hartenbergeri n. sp." = Cricetulodon hartenbergeri3 Freudenthal 1967 mouse
"Cricetodon decedens" = Cricetodon (Hispanomys) decedens Schaub 1925 mouse
C. decedens aragonensis nov. subsp.
Megacricetodon debruijni n. sp.4 Freudenthal 1968 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus pliocaenicus1, "Peridyromys multicrestatus" = Myomimus multicrestatus1, "Peridyromys dehmi n. sp." = Myomimus dehmi1
Muscardinus pliocaenicus1 Kowalski 1963 dormouse
M. pliocaenicus hispanicus nov. subsp.
"Peridyromys multicrestatus" = Myomimus multicrestatus1 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
"Peridyromys dehmi n. sp." = Myomimus dehmi1 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"? Getuloxerus sp." = Atlantoxerus2 Major 1893 squirrel
Sciurinae indet.2 Gray 1821 squirrel