Saint-Gregoire: Langhian - Serravallian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Metaxytherium medium
(Desmarest 1822)
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2 specimens | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Spariformes
- Sparidae
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Diplodus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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3 specimens | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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1 specimen | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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1 specimen | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis sp.
Agassiz 1838
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1 specimen | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Aetobatidae
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Aetobatis sp.
(Blainville 1816)
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1 specimen | ||||||
original and current combination Aetobatus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France |
Coordinates: | 48.2° North, 1.7° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 48.3° North, 3.0° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandy "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Most of the Miocene deposits, the so-called "faluns", consist of unconsolidated calcarenites and sandy limestones with clay and marl intercal- ations being exceptional. | |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 154318 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-02-11 10:22:43 | Last modified: | 2014-02-11 10:22:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-02-11 10:22:43 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
50157. | C. Lecuyer, P. Grandjean, F. Paris, M. Robardet, and D. Robineau. 1996. Deciphering "temperature" and "salinity" from biogenic phosphates: the 6180 of coexisting fishes and mammals of the Middle Miocene sea of western France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 126(1):61-74 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |