Malartic, a la ferme Larrieu: Langhian - Tortonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber cf. depereti Mayet 1908
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
? Plithocyon armagnacensis Ginsburg 1955
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Pseudarctos bavaricus Schlosser 1899
Pseudocyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus (de Blainville 1843)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dromoceratherium ? simorrensis
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
1 rank
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grande (de Blainville 1849)
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
2 rank
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx magnus
Mammalia - Moschidae
Micromeryx flourensianus Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Bovidae
Eotragus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium cf. crassum Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Suidae
Conohyus simorrensis (Lartet 1851)
3 rank
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Midi-Pyrenees Region County:Gers Departement
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 0.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 0.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:262 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene
*International age/stage:Langhian - Tortonian *Local age/stage:Vindobonian - Vindobonien
Key time interval:Langhian - Tortonian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Calcaire de Monlezun Local bed:Level 10 of Crouzel's (1957) stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The level 10 of Crouzel (1957) corresponds to a major detritic input in the area of Simorre.
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Simorre
Database number:31776
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:E. Fara Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-25 08:56:03 Last modified:2003-05-25 11:56:19
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-25 08:56:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8548.5% 29800L. Ginsburg and P. Tassy. 1977. Les nouveaux gisements a Mastodontes du Vindobonien moyen de Simorre (Gers). Comptes Rendus sommaires de la Societe geologique de France 1:24-26 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]