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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse | |
Allocricetus bursae, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Lemmus lemmus, "Microtus gregalis" = Microtus, "Microtus malei" = Microtus, "Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus, Microtus arvalis, Arvicola terrestris
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Lemmus lemmus Linnaeus 1758 Norway lemming
"Pitymys subterraneus" = Microtus vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse |