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29 March 2013 Les assemblages de vertébrés dans deux sites paléontologiques du bassin miocène de Savigné-sur-Lathan/Noyant-sous-le-Lude : La Guimardière et Pelmer (Maine-et-Loire, France)
Cyril Gagnaison
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Clusters of vertebrates in two paleontological sites of the Savigné-sur-Lathan/Noyant-sous-le-Lude Miocene Basin : La Guimardière and Pelmer (Maine-et-Loire, France). Two paleontological sites, La Guimardière and Pelmer, of the Miocene Basin of Savigné-sur-Lathan/Noyant-sous-le-Lude are described here. These sites are located northwest of Noyant-sous-le-Lude (Maine-et-Loire, France). The geological contexts of Pelmer and La Guimardière are distinct. The limestone substratum (Oligocene) can only be seen in the Pelmer site when the early Orleanian fluviatile sands may only be observed at La Guimardière. The thickness of the Middle to Late Miocene marins shelly fossils varies between Pelmer and La Guimardière. Between 1980 and 2003, both sites were exploited by amateur paleontologists. A collection of 2727 fossils of vertebrates were discovered. Currently, most of these fossils are stored in the paleontological collection of the “Musée du Savignéen” (Savigné-sur-Lathan, Indre-et-Loire, France). The geological and taphonomic contexts from Pelmer and La Guimardière have helped to create any fossil groups with the same age and the same conservation. The paleontological study reveals six distinct groups: a continental fauna in situ in the Early Orleanian fluviatile sands of La Guimardière (MN3a) ; a Middle to Late Miocene (MN5 to MN9) marine fauna, in situ or slightly reworked ; five clusters of reworked fossils (Upper Cretaceous-Miocene) in Miocene sands. These data confirm and complete the fossil groups already known in the literature.

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Cyril Gagnaison "Les assemblages de vertébrés dans deux sites paléontologiques du bassin miocène de Savigné-sur-Lathan/Noyant-sous-le-Lude : La Guimardière et Pelmer (Maine-et-Loire, France)," Geodiversitas 35(1), 67-103, (29 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.5252/g2013n1a5
Received: 15 February 2011; Accepted: 1 November 2011; Published: 29 March 2013
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KEYWORDS
Anjou
assemblage faunique
biostratigraphie
biostratigraphy
faluns
faunal assemblage
France
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