Summit of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Miocene of France)

Also known as Summit of Saint Gérand le Puy

Where: France (46.3° N, 3.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Indusial Limestone Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• The deposits of St-Gérand-le-Puy are part of the infill of the Limagne Basin, a rift basin the origin of which is related to the alpine orogeny. Likely a brackish/hypersaline lake environment.
• Bosc notes that the limestone is composed nearly entirely of tiny agglutinated tubular fossils, forming an irregular mass.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Bosc in 1805

Primary reference: L. Bosc. 1805. Sur un fossile remarquable de la montagne de Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, entre Moulins et Roanne, Département de l'Allier, appelé l'Indusie tubuleuse. Journal des Mines 17:397-400 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151407: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Boidae
Bransateryx sp.
Bransateryx sp. Hoffstetter and Rage 1972 sand boa
two trunk vertebrae (PIMUZ A/III 4653 and PIMUZ A/III 4654); Gannat: a trunk vertebra (PIMUZ A/III 4681)
 Squamata - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp., Ophisaurus holeci
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard
ten presacral vertebrae (PIMUZ A/III 4637-PIMUZ A/III 4639, PIMUZ A/III 4641-PIMUZ A/III 4644, PIMUZ A/III 4655, PIMUZ A/ III 4657, and PIMUZ A/III 4680) and ten caudal vertebrae (PIMUZ A/III 4640, PIMUZ A/III 4645-PIMUZ A/ III 4652, and PIMUZ A/III 4658)
Ophisaurus holeci Klembara 2015 glass lizard
two parietals (PIMUZ A/ III 4626 and PIMUZ A/III 4627)
Insecta
 Trichoptera - Limnephilidae
Indusia tubulosa n. gen. n. sp.
Indusia tubulosa n. gen. n. sp. Bosc 1805 caddisfly