MAMMIF(E)RES DE SANSAN,coordinated by Stéphane Peigné and Sevket Sen,2012

摘要

The Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle,via the able hands of Stéphane Peigné and Sevket Sen,has produced a massive scientific work that compiles advanced studies on the diverse mammalian fossil assemblage of Sansan,Gers,southwestern France.Servais et al.(2012) called Sansan a "lagerst(a)tte",and so it is:a remarkable fossil site that assembles much of the biota of its past community in one place.Sansan is a site complex with adjacent quarriable accumulations of bones and micromammal horizons that lend well to taphonomic analysis.A number of vertebrate taxa are represented by partial skeletons.About 15 Ma in age (Sen,1997),the paleocommunity sampled by Sansan existed toward the end of the Miocene Climatic Optimum,with a warm,moist climate,and therefore was diverse.Sansan stands as a key locality revealing biotic diversity in Europe during the early Middle Miocene.