Les Chapelins: Rupelian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon cf. atavus (Misonne 1957)
Vianey-Liaud 1972
recombined as Atavocricetodon atavus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus aff. promyarion Schaub 1930
Ménouret 2014
Mammalia - Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Issiodoromys medius (Vianey-Liaud 1976)
Vianey-Liaud and Schmid 2009
Elfomys medius
Theridomys helmeri n. sp. Vianey-Liaud 1972
CHA-2 - type
Pseudoltinomys major Vianey-Liaud 1976
Vianey-Liaud and Schmid 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Vaucluse County:Luberon
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 5.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 1.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian Mammal zone: MP 23
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:183376
Authorizer:P. Mannion, P. Coster Enterer:P. Mannion, P. Coster
Modifier:P. Coster Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-12-14 06:50:38 Last modified:2019-05-10 07:51:37
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-14 06:50:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61205. D. Kälin. 2013. A new Oligocene (MP 24) mammal fauna (Dürrenberg, Canton Jura, NW Switzerland) from the eastern slope of the ‘‘Rauracian depression’’. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 106:207-218 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

68425 B. Ménouret. 2014. Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon. Courrier scientifique du Parc naturel régional du Luberon et de la Réserve de biosphère Luberon-Lure 12:56-74 [P. Coster/P. Coster]
61558 M. Vianey-Liaud. 1972. Contribution à l'étude des Cricétidés oligocènes d'Europe occidentale. Palaeovertebrata 5:1-44 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61260 M. Vianey-Liaud and B. Schmid. 2009. Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia). Geodiversitas 31(4):909-941 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]