Faget Brickyard (Pliocene of France)

Where: Pyrénées-Orientales, France (42.7° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MN 15 mammal zone, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178672: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 10.05.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
"Emys gaudryi" = Clemmys gaudryi
"Emys gaudryi" = Clemmys gaudryi Depéret 1885 turtle
Paralectotype MNHN 1886-1
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Testudo perpiniana n. sp." = Titanochelon perpiniana
"Testudo perpiniana n. sp." = Titanochelon perpiniana Depéret 1885 turtle
humerus and ilium