Gannat sommet: Chattian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Pseudeumeces cadurcensis Filhol 1877
Auge and Hervet 2009 21 specimens
RH-B2–0023, left dentary; RH-B2–0025 and RH-B2–2192, two incomplete left dentaries; RH-B2–1240, anterior left dentary; RH-B2–772, anterior right dentary; RH-B2–773 and RH-B2–2193, two incomplete right dentaries; RH-B2–769 and RH-B2–770, two left maxillae; RH-B2–771 and RH-B2–6210, two right maxillae; RH-B2–774, posterior right maxilla; RH-B2–1203, incomplete left maxilla; RH-B2–1273 and RH-B2–6091, two mandible fragments; RH-B2–775, frontal; RH-B2–2190, RH-B2–2198 and RH-B2–2200, three incomplete frontals; RH-B2-1179, parietal; RH-B2–6473, anterior parietal
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Empheresula arvernensis (Milne-Edwards 1867)
Gohlich 2003
recombined as Parasula arvernensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster emydoides Pomel 1847
Broin 1977
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ronzotherium romani
Ménouret et al. 2015
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
Eggysodon pomeli n. sp. Roman 1910
de Bonis and Brunet 1995
recombined as Allacerops pomeli
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes County:Allier
Coordinates: 46.1° North, 3.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.8° North, 0.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MP 30
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:125329
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion, P. Barrett Enterer:M. Uhen, T. Cleary, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion
Modifier:T. Cleary Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-03-08 07:19:38 Last modified:2019-01-30 06:34:50
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-08 07:19:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40655. J. Milkovsky. 2009. Evolution of the Cenozoic marine avifaunas of Europe. Annales Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 111(A):357-374 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

59247 M. L. Auge and S. Hervet. 2009. Fossil lizards from the locality of Gannat (late Oligocene–early Miocene, France) and a revision of the genus Pseudeumeces (Squamata, Lacertidae). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 89:191-201 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
60047 F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
61225 L. de Bonis and M. Brunet. 1995. Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocène, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertébrés. 10. Perissodactyla: Allaceropinae et Rhinocerotidae. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 236(1-6):177-190 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
40668 U. B. Gohlich. 2003. The avifauna of the Grund Beds (Middle Miocene, Early Badenian, northern Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 104:237-249 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht]
65807 B. Ménouret, J.-J. Châteauneuf, D. Nury and S. Peigné. 2015. Aubenas-les-Alpes, a forgotten Oligocene mammalian site in Provence (S-E France). Part I – Carnivora, Perissodactyla and Microflora. Annales de Paléontologie 101:241-250 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]