Sansan
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Sansan is a commune
in the Gers
department in southwestern France
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The vicinity of Sansan is known for its Miocene fossil deposits where geologist Edouard Lartet
unearthed the jaw of the primate Pliopithecus antiquus in 1837.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Gers
Gers
The Gers is a department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.Inhabitants are called les Gersois or Gersoises.-History:...
department in southwestern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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The vicinity of Sansan is known for its Miocene fossil deposits where geologist Edouard Lartet
Édouard Lartet
Édouard Lartet was a French paleontologist.-Biography:Lartet was born near Castelnau-Barbarens, of Gers, France, where his family had lived for more than five hundred years. He was educated for the law at Auch and Toulouse, but having private means elected to devote himself to science...
unearthed the jaw of the primate Pliopithecus antiquus in 1837.