Sansan (Gers)

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Sansan
Sansan (France)
Sansan
region Occitania
Department Gers
Arrondissement Mirande
Canton Also-3
Community association Val de Gers
Coordinates 43 ° 32 '  N , 0 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 32 '  N , 0 ° 36'  E
height 159-240 m
surface 3.70 km 2
Residents 99 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 27 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 32260
INSEE code 32411

Sansan is a municipality with 99 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) located on the Gers river in the canton of Auch-3 within the Gers department in the Occitania region .

geography

The place extends over an area of ​​3.7 km². The neighboring municipalities are Orbessan , Traversères , Ornézan and Durban . The largest city nearby is Auch , located 13 kilometers northwest of Sansan.

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Demographics

Development of the population of Sansan from 1962 to 2016
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2008 2009 2013 2016
87 90 81 98 108 89 92 93 95 95 98

Sansan fossil site

The jaw of the primate Pliopithecus antiquus was discovered in the fossil deposits near Sansan in 1837

Sansan is best known for its fossil deposit, in which Édouard Armand Lartet discovered the pine of Pliopithecus antiquus from the Miocene in 1837 . This discovery provided evidence for the first time that primates lived in Central Europe. A large part of the fossils of mastodons (including trilophodons ), rhinos, predators, birds (including Colius palustris and Miocorvus larteti ), reptiles and molluscs that were subsequently unearthed also come from the marl rock deposits of the Miocene. Lartet wrote a book about the fossilized vertebrate fauna of Sansan in 1851.

literature

  • Édouard Armand Lartet: Notice sur la colline de Sansan, suivie d'une récapitulation des diverses espèces d'animaux vertébrés fossils, trouvés soit à Sansan, soit dans d'autres gisements du terrain tertiaire du miocène dans le bassin sous-pyrénéen , 1851 ( Online )
  • Leonard Ginsburg: La faune miocène de Sansan et son environnement. Collection Mémoires du muséum national d'histoire naturelle In: Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Vol. 183, 2000 ( digital copy (PDF, 410 pages))

Web links

Commons : Sansan  - collection of images, videos and audio files