Cucuron: Miocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Kowalskia lavocati (Hugueney and Mein 1965)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Occitanomys adroveri (Thaler 1966)
unclassified
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys truci Mein and Michaux 1970
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus cf. bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977
Mammalia - Bovidae
Miotragocerus gaudryi (Kretzoi 1941)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856
Mammalia - Suidae
Microstonyx major (Gervais 1848)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion prostylum Gervais 1849
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Mammalia - Talpidae
Dibolia pontica (Schreuder 1940)
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Plectronoceratidae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Vaucluse County:Luberon
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 5.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.3° North, 7.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Miocene Mammal zone:  MN12
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ravin de Ratavoux
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: MN 12, Tortonien, Upper Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue siltstone
Secondary lithology: lignite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Blueish clays with intercalations of lignite
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Aumane, Mont Léberon, Mont Luberon
Database number:201497
Authorizer:P. Coster Enterer:P. Coster
Modifier:P. Coster Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-05-10 08:11:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-05-10 08:11:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
68425. 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]