Abimes de la Fage (Pleistocene of France)

Where: Limousin Region, France (45.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195221: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelodytidae
Pelodytes punctatus Daudin 1802 parsley frog
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad
Bufo bufo Linnaeus 1758 toad
Bufo calamita Cope 1864 toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
Rana temporaria Linnaeus 1758 common frog
Rana dalmatina Bonaparte 1839 frog
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla sp. Laurenti 1768 tree frog
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Discoglossus sp. Otth 1837 painted frog
 Caudata - Urodela
Salamandra sp. Laurenti 1768 salamander
Reptilia
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coronella sp. Laurenti 1768 colubrid snake
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera sp. Laurenti 1768 pit viper
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789 Hermann's tortoise