Also known as Escamps
Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (44.4° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 2.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Escamps zone, MP 19 (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents
•MP 19 according to Mayr and Mourer-Chauviré 2000
Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. de Bonis, J.-Y. Crochet, J. C. Rage, B. Sige, J. Sudre and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1973. Nouvelles faunes de vertebres oligocenes des phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (174)105-113 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12846: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Philip Mannion, Mark Uhen, John Alroy and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Placosaurus sp.2 Gervais 1852 squamates around ten dorsal vertebrae, some caudal vertebrae, some osteoderms
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Necrosaurus cayluxi2 Filhol 1873 squamates seven incomplete dentaries, various maxillae fragments, numerous dorsal and caudal vertebrae; USTL ECX 51, an axis; USTL ECX 52, a few sacral vertebrae; numerous osteoderms
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Cadurciguana hoffstetteri2 Auge 1987 squamates thirty four incomplete right dentaries; USTL ECX 54, incomplete right dentary; thirty left dentaries; ten incomplete right maxillae; four incomplete left maxillae; USTL ECX 55, left maxilla; six frontals; thirteen premaxillae; more than sixty dorsal vertebrae; fifty caudal vertebrae
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Plesiolacerta lydekkeri2 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates thirteen dorsal vertebrae, eight caudal vertebrae; USTL ECB 1702, left dentary; two juvenile right dentaries
Gracilicerta sindexi2 Augé 2005 squamates USTL ECX 56, nearly complete right dentary; one premaxilla
Escampcerta amblyodonta n. gen. n. sp.2 Augé 2005 squamates USTL ECC2507 (holotype), right dentary; two additional right and one left near-complete dentaries, two fragmentary left dentaries, two left maxillae, two right maxillae
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Scincoidea "indet. Forme B"2 Oppel 1811 squamates USTL ECC 2510, two incomplete dentaries (one left, one right)
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