MIOCENE MAMMALS OF TOURAINE (Proboscidians)
| Description |
Genus |
Species |
Family |
Origin |
| molar of mastodon (M3l) |
Gomphotherium |
angustidens |
Gomphotheriidae |
Pontlevoy |
Coll. Museum of le Grand-Pressigny
This tooth comes from Pontlevoy and was found, either in faluns (the most probable, in view of its enough blunt state), or in fluviatile sands, underlying with the faluns. These sands are intermediate between fluviatile sands of Orléanais dated from Burdigalian and faluns from Langhian.
