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Les Matelles, Lodève, Hérault, Occitanie, Francei
Regional Level Types
Les MatellesCommune
LodèveArrondissement
HéraultDepartment
OccitanieRegion
FranceCountry

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Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Les Matelles1,610 (2016)
Mindat Locality ID:
357363
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:357363:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
English:
Les Matelles
French:
Les Matelles, Lodève, Hérault, Occitanie, France
German:
Les Matelles, Arrondissement Lodève, Département Hérault, Okzitanien, Frankreich
Italian:
Les Matelles, arrondissement di Lodève, Hérault, Occitania, Francia
Simplified Chinese:
莱斯马泰莱, 洛代夫区, 埃罗省, 奥克西塔尼大区, 法国
Spanish:
Les Matelles, Distrito de Lodève, Hérault, Occitania, Francia
Afrikaans:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Oksitanië, Frankryk
Aragonese:
Les Matelles, Destrito de Lodeva, Erau, Occitania, Francia
Asturian:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Francia
Bambara:
Les Matelles, Faransi
Basque:
Les Matelles, Lodèveko barrutia, Hérault, Okzitania, Frantzia
Bavarian:
Les Matelles, Frankreich
Breton:
Les Matelles, arondisamant Lodeva, Erau, Okitania, Bro-C'hall
Catalan:
Las Matèlas, Districte de Lodeva, Erau, Occitània, França
Cebuano:
Les Matelles, Arrondissement de Lodève, Hérault, Occitanie, Pransiya
Chechen:
Ле-Матель, Эро, Франци
Corsican:
Les Matelles, Francia
Croatian:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Francuska
Czech:
Les Matelles, Arrondissement Lodève, Hérault, Okcitánie, Francie
Danish:
Les Matelles, Lodève Arrondissement, Hérault, Occitanie, Frankrig
Dutch:
Les Matelles, Arrondissement Lodève, Hérault, Occitanie, Frankrijk
Dutch Low Saxon:
Les Matelles, Frankriek
Esperanto:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Okcitanio, Francio
Estonian:
Les Matelles, Hérault' departemang, Prantsusmaa
Faroese:
Les Matelles, Frakland
Finnish:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Oksitania , Ranska
Franco-Provençal:
Les Matelles, Hèrôlt, France
Friulian:
Les Matelles, France
Galician:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitania, Francia
Greenlandic:
Les Matelles, Franskit Nunaat
Hungarian:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Franciaország
Icelandic:
Les Matelles, Frakkland
Ido:
Les Matelles, Francia
Indonesian:
Les Matelles, Arondisemen Lodève, Hérault, Ositania, Perancis
Interlingua:
Les Matelles, Departimento Herault, Francia
Interlingue:
Les Matelles, Francia
Irish Gaelic:
Les Matelles, An Fhrainc
Jamaican Patois:
Les Matelles, Frans
Kabyle:
Les Matelles, Fransa
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Ле-Матель, Эро, Франция
Kazakh (Latin Script):
Le-Matelʹ
Kongo:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Fwalansa
Latin:
Les Matelles, Arauris, Occitania, Francia
Latvian:
Les Matelles, Ēro, Francija
Ligurian:
Les Matelles, Fransa
Limburgian:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanië, Frankriek
Lithuanian:
Les Matelles, Hero, Oksitanija, Prancūzija
Lombard:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Frància
Low Saxon/Low German:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Frankriek
Luxembourgish:
Les Matelles, Arrondissement Lodève, Departement Hérault, Occitanie, Frankräich
Malagasy:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Frantsa
Malay:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Perancis
Minangkabau:
Les Matelles, Parancih
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Les Matelles, Lodève Kūn, Hérault, Hoat-kok
Narom:
Les Matelles, France
Neapolitan:
Les Matelles, Franza
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Les Matelles, Hérault, Frankrike
Occitan:
Matèlas, arrondiment de Lodeva, Erau, Occitània, França
Papiamento:
Les Matelles, Fransia
Picard:
Les Matelles, Occitanie, Franche
Piedmontese:
Les Matelles, Dipartiment ëd l'Hérault, Fransa
Polish:
Matelles, Okręg Lodève, Hérault, Oksytania, Francja
Portuguese:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitânia, França
Romanian:
Les Matelles, Arondismentul Lodève, Hérault, Occitania, Franța
Romansh:
Les Matelles, Frantscha
Sardinian:
Les Matelles, Frantza
Scots:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanie, Fraunce
Scottish Gaelic:
Les Matelles, Hérault, An Fhraing
Sicilian:
Les Matelles, Francia
Slovak:
Les Matelles, Lodève, Hérault, Occitánia, Francúzsko
Slovenian:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Francija
Swahili:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Ufaransa
Swedish:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanien, Frankrike
Turkish:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanie, Fransa
Ukrainian:
Ле-Матель, Еро, Окситанія, Франція
Venetian:
Les Matelles, Fransa
Vietnamese:
Les Matelles, Lodève, Hérault, Occitanie, Pháp
Volapük:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Loxitän, Fransän
Walloon:
Les Matelles, France
Waray:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanie, Fransya
Welsh:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Ocsitania, Ffrainc
West Flemish:
Les Matelles, Hérault, Occitanie, Vrankryk
Wolof:
Les Matelles, Faraas
Zulu:
Les Matelles, IFulansi


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Fossils

There are 3 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences6
Youngest Fossil Listed23.0 Ma (Miocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed161 Ma (Jurassic)
Fossils from RegionClick here to show the list.
Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Megaloolithus aureliensis
species
Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Megaloolithidae : Megaloolithus : Megaloolithus aureliensis70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Prismatoolithus tenuis
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Prismatoolithidae : Prismatoolithus : Prismatoolithus tenuis70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Prismatoolithus matellensis
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Prismatoolithidae : Prismatoolithus : Prismatoolithus matellensis70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Percymygale vauclusensis
species
Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lipotyphla : Talpidae : Percymygale : Percymygale vauclusensis33.9 - 23.03 Ma
Cenozoic
Pseudaganides argoviensis
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Pseudonautilidae : Pseudaganides : Pseudaganides argoviensis161.2 - 155.7 Ma
Jurassic
Theridomys lembronicus
species
Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rodentia : Theridomyidae : Theridomys : Theridomys lembronicus33.9 - 23.03 Ma
Cenozoic
Fossil LocalitiesClick to show 3 fossil localities

Other Databases

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Matelles
Wikidata ID:Q1062426


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