Villafeliche II A: Miocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Armantomys aragonensis n. gen., n. sp.
de Bruijn 1966
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Daams 1991 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Democricetodon minor
(Lartet 1851)
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| D. minor hispanicus nov. subsp. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Zaragoza |
| Coordinates: | 41.2° North, 1.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.4° North, 2.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 937 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local bed: | 2 A | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Type level for this fossil (it's the holotype) is the ibericus-Zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36019 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, L. van den Hoek Ostende | Enterer: | E. Leckey, L. van den Hoek Ostende |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-13 10:45:49 | Last modified: | 2004-01-13 12:45:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-13 10:45:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9308. | 5% 41400 | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 19702 | R. Daams. 1991. Hypsodont Myomiminae (Gliridae, Rodentia) from the Miocene and the Oligocene-Miocene boundary interval of Spain. Scripta Geologica 95:1-62 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] |