Fuente Podrida (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Albacete, Spain (39.3° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• MN12, Miocene.

Environment/lithology:

• marl and clayey limestones.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: P. Mein, E. Moissenet, and G. Truc. 1978. Les Formations continentales du Neogene superieur des vallees du Jucar et du Cabriel au ne d'Albacete (Espagne). Biostratigraphie et environment. Documents des laboratoires de Geologie de Lyon 72:99-147 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41949: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 22.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977 pika
3 damaged lower P3, 1 upper D4.
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Parapodemus barbarae" = Parapodemus gaudryi barbarae van de Weerd 1976 mouse
2 upper M1, 1 upper M2, 1 Upper M3, 3 lower M1, 1 lower M2 fragment, 1 lower M3.
Occitanomys adroveri Thaler 1966 mouse
1 and a half upper M1.
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys aff. truci Mein and Michaux 1970 dormouse
Eliomys sp. (aff E. truci).
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog
1 lower M1 fragment.
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
"Petenyiella cf. repenningi" = Paenelimnoecus repenningi
"Petenyiella cf. repenningi" = Paenelimnoecus repenningi Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 red-toothed shrew
1 lower M2.