Pontlevoy turtle: Burdigalian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Ergilemys sp. Ckhikvadze 1972
Broin 1977
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Broin 1977
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys pygolopha (Peters 1868)
Ptychogaster sp. Pomel 1847
Broin 1977
"Ptychogaster (Temnoclemys) sp."
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Broin 1977
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868
Broin 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Centre-Val de Loire County:Loir-et-Cher
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 0.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian Mammal zone: MN 5a
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:178520
Authorizer:D. Nicholson, P. Holroyd Enterer:D. Nicholson, P. Holroyd
Modifier:D. Nicholson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-05-06 09:40:55 Last modified:2016-05-06 09:48:05
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-06 09:40:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58591. 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]

Secondary references:

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]