Also known as Saint Gérand le Puy
Where: Auvergne, France (46.3° N, 3.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: MN 2 mammal zone, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
•Original environment entry >>marine indet.<< has been changed accordingly. (TL)
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN, NMB
Primary reference: U. B. Gohlich. 2003. The avifauna of the Grund Beds (Middle Miocene, Early Badenian, northern Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 104:237-249 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125333: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Juan Benito Moreno, Terri Cleary, Patricia Holroyd and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Empheresula arvernensis Milne-Edwards 1867 booby | |
"Phalacrocorax littoralis" = Phalacrocorax littoralis, "Graculus littoralis n. sp." = Phalacrocorax littoralis7, Nectornis miocaenus n. gen.2
"Phalacrocorax littoralis" = Phalacrocorax littoralis Milne-Edwards 1863 cormorant | |
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Miopelecanus gracillis n. gen.2
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cf. Palaeortyx intermedia Ballman 1966 pheasant | |
Reptilia | |
Gerandogekko arambourgi n. sp.4
Gerandogekko arambourgi n. sp.4 Hoffstetter 1946 gecko MNHN [specimen number not cited in original description or subsequent published references], a frontal; MNHN, topotypic frontal and maxilla.
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Vipera sp.8 Laurenti 1768 pit viper "'Vipera aspis complex'", figured specimens are catalogued as MNHN SG 13732 and 13733
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Ptychogaster pomeli n. sp.6 Lydekker 1889 turtle BMNH 30936 (holotype), conjoined epiplastrals; BMNH 30928, conjoined epiplastrals
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Amphibia | |
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