Vieux Collonges: Orleanian - Middle Miocene, France
collected by P. Mein, among others
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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cf. Palaeortyx intermedia
Ballman 1966
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Gohlich 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Broin 1977 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Broin 1977 | |||||||||
"? Ptychogaster sp." | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus cf. hofmanni
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Georgalis et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Natrix aff. sansaniensis
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2 specimens | |||||||||
FSL 368830-1, 2 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Natricinae informal A
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35 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368832-4, 3 cervical vertebrae; FSL 368835-66. 32 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Natricinae informal B
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368867-8, 2 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Natricinae informal C
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24 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368869-91, 24 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Natricinae informal D
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368892-5, 4 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Neonatrix europaea
Rage and Holman 1984
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Rage and Holman 1984 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
= Neonatrix cf. europaea
Rage and Holman 1984
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Ivanov 2000 | |||||||||
FSL 368823-29, 7 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Texasophis sp.
Holman 1977
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7 specimens | |||||||||
FSL 368349-55, 7 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Boidae
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Boidae informal B
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368343-4, 2 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Boidae informal C
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 368345-8, 4 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Eryx sp.
Daudin 1803
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6 specimens | |||||||||
FSL 368337-40, 4 trunk vertebrae; FSL 368341-2, 2 caudal vertebrae | ||||||||||
Python sp.
Daudin 1803
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361 specimens | |||||||||
FSL 368001, 1 palatine; MNHN VCO 5-9 and FSL 368002-033, 37 cervical vertebrae; MNHN VCO 10-29 and FSL 368034-334, 321 trunk vertebrae; FSL 368335-6, 2 caudal vertebrae | ||||||||||
Python europaeus
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Georgalis et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Elapidae
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Elapidae informal A
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 369197-8, 2 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Elapidae informal B
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17 specimens | |||||||||
Morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 369199-215, 17 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Micrurus gallicus
Rage and Holman 1984
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Rage and Holman 1984 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Micrurus aff. gallicus
Rage and Holman 1984
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Ivanov 2000 | |||||||||
FSL 369450, 1 trunk vertebra | ||||||||||
Naja informal sp. 1
Laurenti 1768
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56 specimens | |||||||||
identified in part as Palaeonaja romani in Rage (1984), in part as Naja cf. N. romani in Szyndlar & Rage (1990), and as Naja sp. 2 in Ivanov (1997). FSL 369141-4, 4 cervical vertebrae; FSL 369145-96, 52 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Naja cf. romani
Hoffstetter 1939
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37 specimens | |||||||||
identified in part as Palaeonaja romani in Rage (1984), in part as Naja cf. N. romani in Szyndlar & Rage (1990), and as Naja sp. 1 in Ivanov (1997). FSL 369104-5, 2 cervical vertebrae; FSL 369106-40, 35 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Viperinae informal B
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2 specimens | |||||||||
"Vipera ('Oriental vipers') or Daboia". FSL 369463-4, 2 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
Viperinae informal A
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12 specimens | |||||||||
"'European vipers' group, 'aspis' complex", morphotype from Ivanov 1997. FSL 369451-62, 12 trunk vertebrae | ||||||||||
= Vipera sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Szyndlar and Rage 1999 | |||||||||
"V. aspis complex" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetodon meini
Freudenthal 1963
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Heißig 1989 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Rhône-Alpes | County: | Rhône |
Coordinates: | 45.8° North, 4.8° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.0° North, 3.4° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 175 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Middle Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Miocene (minimum) |
Key time interval: | Orleanian - Middle Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 20.00000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: lower/middle Miocene fissure fill in Jurassic carbonates |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | MNHN |
Collectors: | P. Mein, among others |
Collection method comments: Some material is also housed in the Centre des Sciences de La Terre, Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon (FSL).
Note: originally entered total specimen number of 1407 has been removed since specimen numbers of individual taxa are given in the list. (TL) | |
Taxonomic list comments:Multiple morphotypic taxa have already been identified as such in: Ivanov, M. 1997. Hadi evropskeho kenzoika (Snakes of the European Cenzoic). Ph.D. dissertation, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 217 pps. |
Metadata
Also known as: | "Mont Ceindre" | ||
Database number: | 26723 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Head, J. Alroy, J. Mueller, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Head, S. Kuemmell, G. Varnham, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen, T. Liebrecht |
Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-10-25 11:13:33 | Last modified: | 2012-12-04 07:56:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-25 11:13:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
7375. | M. Ivanov. 2000. Snakes of the lower/middle Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (Rhône, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids. Geodiversitas 22(4):559-588 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
72533 | G. L. Georgalis, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan, A. N. El-Barkooky, and M. A. Hamdan. 2020. Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt. PeerJ 8(e9092):1-26 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
40668 | U. B. Gohlich. 2003. The avifauna of the Grund Beds (Middle Miocene, Early Badenian, northern Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 104:237-249 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht] | |
13262 | K. Heißig. 1989. The faunal succession of the Bavarian Molasse reconsidered - correlation of the MN5 and MN6 faunas. Lindsay, E. H., Fahlbusch, V. & Mein, P.: European Neogene Mammal Chronology. Nato ASI-series, Plenum Press; New York 181-192 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] | |
43571 | J.-C. Rage and J. A. Holman. 1984. Des serpents (Reptilia, Squamata) de type nord-américain dans le Miocène Français. Évolution parallèle ou dispersion. Geobios 17(1):89-104 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] | |
43699 | Z. Szyndlar and J.-C. Rage. 1999. Oldest Fossil Vipers (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Old World. Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 8:9-20 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |