Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.2° N, 1.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.9° N, 0.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Type level for this fossil (it's the holotype) is the ibericus-Zone
Environment/lithology:
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: M. 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36019: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 13.01.2004, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Armantomys aragonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Armantomys aragonensis n. gen. n. sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse | |
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