05954nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-64415-3 DE-He213 20251030114952.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250409s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031644153 978-3-031-64415-3 10.1007/978-3-031-64415-3 doi QE701-760 RBX bicssc SCI054000 bisacsh RBX thema Senèze: Life in Central France Around Two Million Years Ago [electronic resource] : Paleontology, Geochronology, Stratigraphy and Taphonomy / edited by Eric Delson, Martine Faure, Claude Guérin. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XII, 709 p. 349 illus., 198 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 1877-9085 Introduction and History Of Research In The Senèze Maar -- Surveying and Excavations At Senèze: 2001-2006 -- Geological Study Of The Paleontological Site Of Senèze (Domeyrat, Haute-Loire, France) -- The Senèze Maar And Paleontological Site (Massif Central, France) -- Geochronology: Argon Dating And Magnetostratigraphy. The paleontological site of Senèze (Haute Loire, central France) was discovered in 1892 inside a volcanic crater. For over 40 years, local peasant Pierre Philis collected fossils and sold them to French and Swiss museums. The site became world-famous for its well-preserved skeletons of ungulates and carnivores, as well as rare but well-preserved remains of primates and other mammals. It is considered the reference fauna for the late Villafranchian and MNQ 18 biochronological units of European mammalian evolution, but the lack of provenance data made modern research difficult. From 2000-2006, the multidisciplinary Franco-American Senèze Research Project undertook five seasons of major fieldwork, with the goals of clarifying the age, stratigraphy and taphonomy of Senèze, as well as finding additional remains, especially of the less well-known taxa. In this volume, following a history of study and summary of the new fieldwork, four geological chapters consider field methods, stratigraphy, volcanology and dating. Combining argon-argon ages and paleomagnetic calibration, the newly recovered fossils are shown to date between 2.20 and 2.08 Ma, with concentrations ca. 2.20-2.18 and 2.10-2.08 Ma, significantly older than previously thought. Chapters on palynology, ichthyology and ornithology are followed by eight chapters on the fossil mammals. The chapter on biochronology places Senèze among other sites at the start of MNQ 18, which is estimated to end ca. 1.7 Ma. Of some 2200 specimens known from the site, over half are cervids, with bovids, rhinocerotids and equids far behind. According to data from palynology and the habitat preferences of the more common mammals, the paleoenvironment around the Senèze maar would have included forest, woodland and grassland, perhaps in a warmer and moister climate than today. Taphonomic studies revealed that bones often rested a long time under water, lacked any indication of carnivore attack and often displayed pathologies in their joints. It is likely that most of the associated skeletons were preserved undisturbed after large mammals fell into the paleolake and drowned without being able to climb out. This book responds to the long-held desire of later Cenozoic paleontologists to see a modern study of a site recognized worldwide as a biochronologic reference for the Plio-Pleistocene. Our study required renewed fieldwork using up to date techniques of topography, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology and taphonomy. The systematic paleontology chapters are based on re-study of the entire body of Senèze fossils collected during more than a century of research. The volume will be of interest to paleontologists, especially those concerned with the evolution of the European fauna and with the taxa studied, as well as with paleoenvironmental reconstruction and biogeography. It will also be of value to mammalogists interested in analyses of near-modern taxa and to paleoanthropologists, archaeologists and taphonomists interested in the methods utilized and the role of Senèze as a comparative standard for a site of this age without human intervention. It will surely be an essential reference for all those who want to know more about Life in Central France Around Two Million Years Ago. Paleontology . Paleoecology. 77085 Physical geography. 66716 Bioinformatics. 64050 Paleontology. Paleoecology. 77085 Earth System Sciences. 66717 Computational and Systems Biology. 65974 Delson, Eric. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 91063 Faure, Martine. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 91064 Guérin, Claude. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 91065 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031644146 Printed edition: 9783031644160 Printed edition: 9783031644177 Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 1877-9085 91066 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64415-3 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 66853 66853