Also known as Baixas'
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (42.0° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Zone C, Aguilar 1982.
Environment/lithology: karst
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: USTL à Montpellier
Primary reference: J.-P. Aguilar, M. Calvet, and J. Michaux. 1986. Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2, Mecanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'Univers, Sciences de la Terre 303(8):755-760 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36976: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 21.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis, Democricetodon aff. affinis, Megacricetodon roussillonensis n. sp., Megacricetodon "minor - similis"
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Democricetodon aff. affinis Schaub 1925 mouse
Megacricetodon "minor - similis" Fahlbusch 1964 mouse | |
Miodyromys sp. Kretzoi 1943 dormouse
Microdyromys koenigswaldi de Bruijn 1966 dormouse |