Birosse, a Castelnau-d'Arbieu: MN 5, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831
recombined as Prodeinotherium bavaricum
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium crassum Deperet 1892
Mammalia
Taucanamo sansaniensis
Mammalia - Cervidae
Procervulus dichotomus Gervais 1849
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Lagomeryx parvulus Roger 1898
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851
Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grande (de Blainville 1849)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Lartetotherium sansaniensis
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
Plesiaceratherium lumiarense Antunes and Ginsburg 1983
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Talpidae
Proscapanus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853
Prolagus oeningensis (König 1825)
Lagopsis penai
Amphilagus ulmensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Heteroxerus rubricati
Heteroxerus grivensis Major 1893
Miopetaurista cf. dehmi de Bruijn et al. 1980
Albanensia aff. sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon romieviensis Freudenthal 1963
Cricetodon aureus Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Cricetodon meini Freudenthal 1963
Megacricetodon aff. collongensis Mein 1958
Fahlbuschia koenigswaldi Freudenthal 1963
Lartetomys mirabilis Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Eumyarion candeloni
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Pseudosciurus aff. fissurae
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys ex gr. sarmatica (Purschke 1885)
Hervet 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Midi-Pyrenees Region County:Gers Departement
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 0.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 0.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene - Middle Miocene
*International age/stage:Langhian - Langhian *Local age/stage:MN 5 - MN 5
Key time interval:MN 5 Zone: MN 5
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: The fossiliferous horizon is sandwitched between the 'Calcaire d'Auch' and the 'Calcaire inferieur de l'Astarac'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandy sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:A general list of lower vertebrates is given for 3 different collections altogether, including Birosse, Le Moune and mare.
Metadata
Also known as:Biros, Castelnau-d'Arbieu
Database number:32071
Authorizer:E. Fara, D. Nicholson Enterer:E. Fara, D. Nicholson
Modifier:E. Fara
Created:2003-06-04 00:57:05 Last modified:2004-07-14 09:22:36
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-04 00:57:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8616.5% 16820C. Bulot, L. Ginsburg, and P. Tassy. 1992. Le gisement a mammiferes miocenes de Castelnau-d'Arbieu (Gers). Donnees nouvelles et implications biostratigraphiques. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris 314 (II):533-537 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

58591 S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]