Grand Morier, assemblage no. 6: Burdigalian - Tortonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Diplocynodon sp.
Reptilia
Tomistoma cf. lusitanica Antunes 1961
Gavialis sp. Oppel 1811
Diplocynodon styriacus (Hofmann 1887)
synonym of Diplocynodon ungeri
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Testudo promarginata Reinach 1900
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster sp. Pomel 1847
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811
Reptilia - Boidae
Boidae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium bavaricum (von Meyer 1831)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Creodonta
Hyainailouros sulzeri Biedermann 1863
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium gaillardi Forsyth Major 1903
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus turnauensis Hoernes 1882
recombined as Styriofelis turnauensis
Pseudaelurus lorteti Gaillard 1899
recombined as Miopanthera lorteti
Pseudaelurus romievensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Agnotherium grivensis
Pseudarctos bavaricus Schlosser 1899
Amphicyon giganteus Schinz 1825
Pseudocyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trocharion albanense Forsyth-Major 1903
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Hemicyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Anisodon grande de Blainville 1849
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Prosantorhinus douvillei Osborn 1902
Prosantorhinus germanicus Wang 1929
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
Lartetotherium sansaniense Lartet 1837
Plesiaceratherium lumiarense Antunes and Ginsburg 1983
Mammalia - Suidae
Hyotherium soemmeringi von Meyer 1834
Bunolistriodon lockharti
Aureliachoerus aurelianensis
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851
Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846
Mammalia
Amphimoschus pontileviensis Bourgeois 1873
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
Lagomeryx sp. Roger 1904
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx bojani
Mammalia - Talpidae
Proscapanus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908
Anchitheriomys wiedemanni
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Lagopsis sp. Schlosser 1894
Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Pliopithecus piveteaui Hürzeler 1954
synonym of Pliopithecus antiquus
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 0.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 1.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Burdigalian - Tortonian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: terrestrial organisms reworked into marine facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:187580
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-08-02 12:57:43 Last modified:2017-08-02 12:57:43
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-02 12:57:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62965. C. Gagnaison. 2017. Le site paléontologique du Grand Morier (Pont-Boutard, Indre-et-Loire, France): contexte géologique et détail biostratigraphique des formations cénozoïques à partir des assemblages de vertébrés fossiles. Geodiversitas 39(2):251-271 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]