Batterie du Serrat d'en Vacquer: Pliocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Caelopeltis laurenti n. sp.
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Szyndlar 2012 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo perpiniana
Depéret 1885
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Depéret and Donnezan 1887 | |||||||||
| recombined as Titanochelon perpiniana | ||||||||||
| MNHN 1887-26, almost complete skeleton in the exhibition of MNHN | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Galerix depereti
Crochet 1986
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Crochet 1986 | |||||||||
| recombined as Parasorex depereti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Episoriculus gibberodon
Petenyi 1864
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Crochet 1986 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Croizetoceros proramosus n. sp.
Dong 1996
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Dong 1996 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| holotype only, mandible with p3-m3 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix cf. primigenia
(Wagner 1848)
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Sen 2001 | |||||||||
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Hystrix depereti n. sp.
Sen 2001
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Sen 2001 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetus angustidens n. sp.
Depéret 1890
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14 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Apocricetus angustidens | ||||||||||
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Trilophomys pyrenaicus
Depéret 1890
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Stephanomys donnezani
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24 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Pliopetaurista pliocenica
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| teeth | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Languedoc-Roussillon Region | County: | Pyrenees Orientales Departement |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 2.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 2.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: yellowish fluvial siltstones intercalated with argillaceous sands | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list certainly incomplete | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Serrat d'en Vacquer | ||
| Database number: | 36103 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, J. Zijlstra, L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos, J. Mueller | Enterer: | E. Fara, T. Liebrecht, E. Vlachos, L. van den Hoek Ostende, J. Zijlstra |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-13 23:03:58 | Last modified: | 2015-03-30 23:13:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-13 23:03:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9687. | 5% 41160 | M. Hugueney and P. Mein. 1966. Les rongeurs pliocenes du Roussillon dans les collections lyonnaises. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte de Sciences de Lyon 13(N.S.):243-266 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 19698 | J.-Y. Crochet. 1986. Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. Palaeovertebrata 16(3):145-171 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
| 63083 | C. Depéret and A. Donnezan. 1887. Sur la Testudo perpiniana Depéret, gigantesque Tortue du Pliocène moyen de Perpignan [On Testudo perpiniana Depéret, a gigantic turtle from the middle Pliocene of Perpignan]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 105:1275-1278 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano] | |
| 57768 | W. Dong. 1996. Les Cervidae (Artiodactyla) rusciniens (Pliocène) du Languedoc et du Roussillon (France). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, series 4, section C 18(1):133-163 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 25489 | S. Sen. 2001. Early Pliocene porcupine (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Perpignan, France: a new systematic study. Geodiversitas 23(2):303-312 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
| 54791 | Z. Szyndlar. 2012. Early Oligocene to Pliocene Colubridae of Europe: a review. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(6):661-681 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |