La Grive L3: MN 7 + 8, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
? Natrix aff. longivertebrata Szyndlar 1984
Rage and Szyndlar 1986 1 element
a single fragmentary vertebra (UCBL no. 285453)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon (Hispanomys) bijugatus n. sp. Mein and Freudenthal 1971
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Rhône-Alpes County:Isére
Coordinates: 45.6° North, 5.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.9° North, 4.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:MN 7 + 8
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN 8 (Astaracian) according to Rage & Holman (1984).(TL)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fissure fill in Jurassic limestone (Rage & Holman, 1984). (TL)
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens listed from Rage & Holman (1984) are deposited in the Department of Earth Sciences of the Claude Bernard University, Lyon (FSL).
Metadata
Also known as:La-Grive-Saint-Alban
Database number:79361
Authorizer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, J. Mueller Enterer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:110928
Created:2008-03-04 13:02:06 Last modified:2012-11-21 12:05:06
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-04 13:02:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26589. P. Mein and M. Freudenthal. 1971. Une nouvelle classification des Cricetidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) du Tertiair de l'Europe. Scripta Geologica 2:1-37 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]

Secondary references:

44424 J.-C. Rage and Z. Szyndlar. 1986. Natrix longivertebrata from the European Neogene, a snake with one of the longest known stratigraphic ranges. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1986(1):56-64 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]