Couche 3, Aven I des abimes de La Fage a Noailles, L. David 1964-1968 (Pleistocene of France)

Where: Limousin region, France (45.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• end of the Middle Pleistocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Chaline. 1972. Les rongeurs de l'Aven I des Abimes de la Fage a Noailles (Correze). Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon (10)61-78 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36437: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 29.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allocricetus bursae, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Lemmus lemmus, "Microtus gregalis" = Microtus, "Microtus malei" = Microtus, "Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus, Microtus arvalis, Arvicola terrestris
Allocricetus bursae mouse
subspecies correzensis
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Lemmus lemmus Linnaeus 1758 Norway lemming
"Microtus gregalis" = Microtus vole
subspecies martelensis
"Microtus malei" = Microtus vole
subspecies noaillensis
"Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
lineage arvalis-agrestis
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse