Saint-Gregoire: Langhian - Serravallian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest 1822)
2 specimens
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Diplodus sp. Rafinesque 1810
3 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatis sp. (Blainville 1816)
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]