En Pejouan: Langhian - Tortonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
1 rank
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dromoceratherium ? simorrensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grande (de Blainville 1849)
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Heteroprox larteti Filhol 1890
Heteroprox larteti Filhol 1890
4 rank
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx magnus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Eotragus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Eotragus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
2 rank
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium cf. crassum Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon splendens
Listriodon splendens
3 rank
? Hyotherium soemmeringi von Meyer 1834
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus (de Blainville 1843)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Progenetta gaillardi
? Semigenetta mutata
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Hemicyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
? Amphicyon major De Blainville 1841
Agnotherium grivensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber cf. depereti Mayet 1908
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:280 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:Vindobonien - 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 Bassoues Local bed:Level 11 of Crouzel's (1957) stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The 3 levels recognised by Crouzel (1957) at Simorre correspond to 3 major detritic inputs
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ampujuan, Simorre
Database number:31775
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:E. Fara Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-25 08:38:57 Last modified:2003-05-25 11:49:37
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-25 08:38:57
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]