Lo Fournas 6a, Baixas area: Tortonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys cf. gaillardi Viret and Schaub 1947
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Rotundomys montisrotundi (Schaub 1944)
Hispanomys mediterraneus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Parapodemus sp. Schaub 1938
Progonomys clauzoni n. sp.
Written as "Progonomys clauzoni n. sp. (9)".
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon Region County:Pyrenees-Orientales Departement
Coordinates: 42.5° North, 2.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 1.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Zone D, Aguilar 1982.
Lithology and environment
Environment:karst indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: USTL à Montpellier
Metadata
Also known as:Baixas'
Database number:36978
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:R. Whatley
Modifier:R. Whatley Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-02-21 12:18:49 Last modified:2004-02-21 14:18:49
Access level:the public Released:2004-02-21 12:18:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9874.5% 22840J.-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]