La Brete: Aquitanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster emydoides Pomel 1847
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Gers
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 0.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 1.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Aquitanian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Aquitanian, Laugnac biozone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:181636
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-09-25 00:11:13 Last modified:2016-09-25 00:11:13
Access level:the public Released:2016-09-25 00:11:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60047. F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]