Le Moune, a Castelnau-d'Arbieu: MN 5, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora
Proputorius cf. pusillus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
"Amphicyon" steinheimensis
Pseudarctos bavaricus Schlosser 1899
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Semigenetta cf. repelini
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium crassum Deperet 1892
Mammalia - Suidae
Hyotherium soemmeringi von Meyer 1834
Mammalia
Taucanamo sansaniensis
Mammalia - Cainotheriidae
Cainotherium cf. huerzeleri Heizmann 1983
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846
Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Procervulus dichotomus Gervais 1849
Palaeomeryx lathanensis
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
Lagomeryx parvulus Roger 1898
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grande (de Blainville 1849)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
Lartetotherium sansaniensis
Plesiaceratherium lumiarense Antunes and Ginsburg 1983
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Talpidae
Proscapanus sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Lagopsis penai
Amphilagus ulmensis
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853
Prolagus oeningensis (König 1825)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Heteroxerus rubricati
Heteroxerus grivensis Major 1893
Albanensia aff. sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Pseudosciurus aff. fissurae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon romieviensis Freudenthal 1963
Lartetomys mirabilis Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Eumyarion candeloni
Eumyarion bifidus (Fahlbusch 1964)
Cricetodon meini Freudenthal 1963
Cricetodon aureus Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Fahlbuschia koenigswaldi Freudenthal 1963
Megacricetodon aff. collongensis Mein 1958
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
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: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The fossiliferous level 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:Only mammals are specified, other vertebrates are lumped into a unique list for 3 collections (Birosse, le Moune, and mare)
Metadata
Database number:32072
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:E. Fara Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-06-04 01:19:54 Last modified:2003-06-04 04:20:09
Access level:database members Released:2003-06-04 01:19:54
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]