Polastron: Middle Miocene, France
collected 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Lissamphibia indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium angustidens
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bavaricum
von Meyer 1831
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recombined as Prodeinotherium bavaricum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Small individual | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon major
De Blainville 1841
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Mammalia
- Cainotheriidae
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Cainotherium cf. miocoenicum
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Mammalia
- Lagomerycidae
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Dicrocerus elegans
Lartet 1837
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Palaeomeryx sp.
von Meyer 1834
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Micromeryx sansaniensis
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium crassum
Lartet 1851
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Dorcatherium guntianum
von Meyer 1846
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Aceratherium tetradactylum
(Lartet 1837)
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recombined as Hoploaceratherium tetradactylum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Prolagus oeningensis
(König 1825)
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Lagopsis sp.
Schlosser 1894
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetodon sansaniensis
Lartet 1851
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Fahlbuschia sp.
Mein and Freudenthal 1971
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Steneofiber cf. depereti
Mayet 1908
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilinus bredai
(von Meyer 1848)
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Heteroxerus cf. grivensis
Major 1893
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Reptilia
- Ophidia
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Ophidia indet.
Latreille 1804
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo canetotiana
Lartet 1851
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recombined as Paleotestudo canetotiana | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Gavialosuchus sp.
Toula and Kail 1885
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Musee de Gimont no. PNB 76 (left maxilla fragment) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Gers |
Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 0.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.7° North, 0.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1980 onwards |
Taxonomic list comments:Musee de Gimont |
Metadata
Database number: | 143472 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-04-24 00:20:57 | Last modified: | 2013-04-23 09:20:57 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-04-24 00:20:57 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46485. | E. Buffetaut, F. Crouzel, F. Juillard and F. Stigliani. 1984. Le crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocene moyen de Polastron (Gers, France). Geobios 17(1):113-117 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |