Lo Fournas 13, near Baixas (Pliocene of France)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (42.8° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Between the Sete and Mas Genegals levels zone, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: karst

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Bachelet, J.-P. Aguilar, M. Calvet and J. Michaux. 1990. Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocene des Pyrenees-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938). Géobios 23(1):117-120 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32109: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 05.06.2003

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Cricetus angustidens" = Apocricetus angustidens Depéret 1890 mouse
Ruscinomys europaeus Depéret 1890 mouse
Trilophomys cf. pyrenaicus Depéret 1890 mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
Occitanomys montheleni Aguilar et al. 1986 mouse
Occitanomys brailloni Michaux 1969 mouse
Castillomys crusafonti Michaux 1969 mouse
Apodemus jeanteti Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus dominans Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys intermedius Priant 1953 dormouse