Les Milles: Late/Upper Oligocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Protaceratherium albigense
(Roman 1912)
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| recombined as Molassitherium albigense | ||||||||||
| MHNA 1979-5, 9, 11, 12 | ||||||||||
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Diaceratherium massiliae
Ménouret and Guérin 2009
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| UPM 13667 | ||||||||||
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Ronzotherium romani
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| FCM 13679, MHNA 1979-1 and 2, MHNA 1900-1, UPM 13697 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Paenanthracotherium bergeri
Scherler et al. 2019
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Scherler et al. 2019 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Aix-en-Provence |
| Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 5.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 2.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | Mammal zone: | MP 26 |
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
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: | 183347 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-12-12 08:59:58 | Last modified: | 2016-12-12 08:59:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-12-12 08:59:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61191. | B. Ménouret and C. Guérin. 2009. Diaceratherium massiliae nov. sp. des argiles oligocènes de Saint-André et Saint-Henri à Marseille et de Les Milles près d’Aix-en-Provence (SE de la France), premier grand Rhinocerotidae brachypode européen. Geobios 42:293-327 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 67211 | L. Scherler, F. Lihoreau, and D. Becker. 2019. To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):487-510 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |