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Révision des données sédimentologiques et biostratigraphiques des gisements à vertébrés des sables de l'Orléanais, à Beaugency, Tavers et Le Bardon (Miocène Moyen; Loiret, France)

  • 1. Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle Beauvais, Département Géosciences, Unité Bassins-Réservoirs-Ressources (B2R – U2R 7511), UniLaSalle-Université de Picardie Jules VERNE, 19 rue Pierre Waguet – boîte postale 30313, F-60026 Beauvais cedex (France)
  • 2. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel (Suisse)
  • 3. Muséum d'Orléans pour la Biodiversité et l'Environnement, 6 rue Marcel Proust, F-45000 Orléans (France)
  • 4. Musée du Savignéen, 10 rue du Faubourg de la Rue, F-37340 Savigné-sur-Lathan (France)
  • 5. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals (Polish Academy of Sciences), Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków (Pologne)
  • 6. Musée La Monnaye, 22 rue des Remparts, F-45130 Meung-sur-Loire (France)
  • 7. 79-81 route de la vallée du Lys, F-37190 Azay-le-Rideau (France)
  • 8. La Muzardière, F-72110 Briosne-les-Sables (France)
  • 9. Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, Département Origines et Évolution, CR2P, UMR 7207 (MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
  • 10. Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, UMR 7207 (MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500 Drumheller. T0J 0Y0 Alberta (Canada)
  • 11. 25 rue Danton, F-37000 Tours (France)
  • 12. Llorenç de Vilallonga, 17B, 1er-1a, 43007 Tarragona (Catalogne)
  • 13. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29 rue Vautier, 1000 Bruxelles (Belgique)
  • 14. Paleotech Atlantic free zone franche 1, 14064 Ameur Seflia Kenitra (Maroc)

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Perthuis, Adrien de, Mennecart, Bastien, Barrier, Pascal, Chenot, Élise, Falconnet, Jocelyn, Gagnaison, Jean-Claude, Georgalis, Georgios L., Gilbert, Charlène, Guevel, Bruno, Langevin, Dominique, Lapparent de Broin, France, Lemierre, Alfred, Maubert, François, Ossó, Àlex, Potel, Sébastien, Thivaiou, Danae, Tissier, Jérémy, Toullec, Renaud, Xerri, Serge F. B., Gagnaison, Cyril (2025): Révision des données sédimentologiques et biostratigraphiques des gisements à vertébrés des sables de l'Orléanais, à Beaugency, Tavers et Le Bardon (Miocène Moyen; Loiret, France). Geodiversitas 47 (12): 501-576, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a12, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a12.pdf

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