Also known as La-Grive-Saint-Alban
Where: Rhône-Alpes, France (45.6° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 4.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)
• MN 7 (Astaracian) according to Rage & Holman (1984).(TL)
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: sieve,
• Specimens listed by Rage & Holman (1984) and Rage & Szyndlar (1986) are deposited in the Department of Earth Sciences of the Claude Bernard University, Lyon (FSL or UCBL).
Primary reference: J.-C. Rage and J. A. Holman. 1984. Des serpents (Reptilia, Squamata) de type nord-américain dans le Miocène Français. Évolution parallèle ou dispersion. Geobios 17(1):89-104 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136199: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 22.11.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•Furthermore, it is assumed that the identifications by Ivanov (2002) are not based on material that was already published in earlier literature.
Reptilia | |
Natrix "sp. 2"2, Natrix "sp. 1"2, Natrix aff. longivertebrata3, Paleoheterodon arcuatus, Texasophis meini, Coluber "sp. 1"2, Coluber "sp. 2"2
Natrix aff. longivertebrata3 Szyndlar 1984 water snake 3 parabasisphenoids (UCBL no. 285075, 285076, 285452), 1 compound bone (UCBL no. 285077), and 374 trunk vertebrae (UCBL no. 285078 to 285451)
Paleoheterodon arcuatus Rage and Holman 1984 colubrid snake | |
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Amphibia | |
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