Balaruc II, Herault (Pliocene of France)
Where: France (43.5° N, 3.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.4° E)
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: J.-Y. Crochet. 1986. Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. Palaeovertebrata 16(3):145-171 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49096: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 08.04.2005, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende and Chris Bell
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Taxonomic list
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"Ophisaurus" sp.2 Daudin 1803 glass lizard one right dentary, six trunk vertebrae, caudal, about 40 osteoderms
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Malpolon sp.2 Fitzinger 1826 colubrid snake "Quelques vertèbres de petite taille sont attribuées au genre Malpolon"
Colubrinae indet.2 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake "Deux petites vertèbres dorsales et plusiers vert¡ebres caudales..."
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Erycinae indet.2 Bonaparte 1825 sand boa "...représentés... par und trentaine de vertébres (dorsales et caudales)
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Michauxophis occitanus n. gen. n. sp.1
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cf. Lacerta sensu lato sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 squamates "un grand nombre de fragments de dentaires et maxillaires..." (p. 14)
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Mammalia | |
Myosorex meini white-toothed shrew
Episoriculus gibberodon Petenyi 1864 red-toothed shrew
Paenelimnoecus pannonicus red-toothed shrew
Deinsdorfia hibbardi red-toothed shrew | |
"Dibolia cf. brailloni" = Archaeodesmana brailloni, Talpa fossilis, Talpa minor, Desmanella gardiolensis n. sp.
"Dibolia cf. brailloni" = Archaeodesmana brailloni Rümke 1985 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Desmanella gardiolensis n. sp. Crochet 1986 mole | |
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