Also known as Aumane, Mont Léberon, Mont Luberon
Where: Vaucluse, France (43.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 4.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN12 mammal zone, Ravin de Ratavoux Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• MN 12, Tortonien, Upper Miocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; blue siltstone and lignite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: B. Ménouret. 2014. Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon. Courrier scientifique du Parc naturel régional du Luberon et de la Réserve de biosphère Luberon-Lure 12:56-74 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201497: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 10.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
cf. Palaeoceras sp. Flower 1954 | |
Reptilia | |
Cheirogaster leberonensis turtle
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821 vesper bat | |
Machairodus giganteus Wagner 1848 cat | |
Ictitherium hipparionum hyaena
Ictitherium orbignyi hyaena
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena | |
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
Gazella deperdita gazelle
Miotragocerus gaudryi Kretzoi 1941 antelope | |
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe | |
Pliocervus matheroni deer | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
Hipparion matthewi Abel 1926 hipparionine horse
Hipparion prostylum Gervais 1849 hipparionine horse | |
Aceratherium incisivum, "Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri" = Dihoplus schleiermacheri
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros
"Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri" = Dihoplus schleiermacheri Kaup 1834 rhinoceros | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Desmanella crusafonti Rümke 1974 mole
"Dibolia pontica" = Desmana pontica Schreuder 1940 Russian desman
Talpa gilhoti mole | |
Parapodemus babarae mouse
Occitanomys adroveri Thaler 1966 mouse | |
Eliomys truci Mein and Michaux 1970 dormouse
Vasseuromys thenii Daxner-Höck and de Bruijn 1981 dormouse | |
"Kowalskia lavocati" = Neocricetodon lavocati, Ruscinomys schaubi
"Kowalskia lavocati" = Neocricetodon lavocati Hugueney and Mein 1965 rodent
Ruscinomys schaubi rodent | |
Chalicomys jaegeri beaver | |
Spermophilinus cf. bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977 pika | |
"Dinotherium giganteum" = Deinotherium giganteum
"Dinotherium giganteum" = Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere |