Vaugines: Miocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion prostylum Gervais 1849
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella deperdita
Miotragocerus gaudryi (Kretzoi 1941)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Vaucluse County:Luberon
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 5.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 4.2° East
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: 23.03 - 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 claystone
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:Cucuron
Database number:201500
Authorizer:P. Coster Enterer:P. Coster
Modifier:P. Coster Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-05-10 08:47:38 Last modified:2019-05-10 08:53:46
Access level:the public Released:2019-05-10 08:47:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]