Soleillades: Ypresian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys liriae n. gen., n. sp. Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2013
MNHN.F.EBA515 a complete and articulated shell
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Hérault County:Siran
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 2.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.8° North, 0.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian Mammal zone: MP 8–9
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Carcassonne Formation:Grès d'Assignan
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: It comes from the Minervois part of the continental Molasse of the Carcassonne series, which includes the Calcaire de Ventenac Fm. (Early Ypresian), the Grès d’Assignan Fm. (lower part of the Late Ypresian), the Calcaire d’Agel Fm. (Late Ypresian), and the Grèsd’Aigne Fm. (Latest Ypresian–Early Lutetian).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,red,yellow lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: It comes from a layerof reddish-yellowish coarse-grained molasse–sandstone with fine continental marls intervals bearing abundant small bivalves and lignite fragments.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:170531
Authorizer:D. Nicholson Enterer:D. Nicholson
Modifier:D. Nicholson
Created:2015-06-23 06:20:09 Last modified:2015-06-24 10:25:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-06-23 06:20:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55573. A. Pérez-García and F. Lapparent de Broin. 2013. A new species of Neochelys (Chelonii, Podocnemididae) from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of the South of France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 12:269-277 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Mannion]