Soleillades: Ypresian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Neochelys liriae n. gen., n. sp.
Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2013
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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] |