La Bouffie (Eocene of France)

Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees region, France (44.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MP 17 mammal zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents. Euzet

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Louis and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles donnees sur les primates de l'Eocene superieur europeen. Colloque international CNRS, Problemes actuels de paleontologie - evolution des vertebres (218)805-828 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12853: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Terri Cleary and Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• incomplete
Mammalia
 Primates - Adapidae
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus4
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus4 Filhol 1874 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Pseudoloris parvulus4 Filhol 1890 tarsier
Necrolemur antiquus Filhol 1873 tarsier
 Artiodactyla - Tapirulidae
Tapirulus perrierensis n. sp.4 Sudre 1978 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Mixtotheriidae
Mixtotherium cuspidatum4 Filhol 1880 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Mouillacitherium elegans4 Filhol 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Robiacinidae
Robiacina quercyi4 Sudre 1977 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Amphimerycidae
Pseudamphimeryx renevieri4 Pictet and Humbert 1869 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Dichodon cervinum4 even-toed ungulate
Haplomeryx cf. picteti4 Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
Leptotheridium lugeoni4 Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
Reptilia
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Escampcerta amblyodonta2 Augé 2005 squamates
complete right dentary
Gracilicerta sindexi2 Augé 2005 squamates
two right dentaries, one left dentary
Plesiolacerta lydekkeri2 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates
four dentaries, two juvenile left dentaries, three dorsal vertebrae, seven caudal vertebrae
 Squamata - Teiidae
Brevisaurus smithi2 Augé 2005 squamates
incomplete right maxilla
Tupinambinae indet.3 Presch 1974 squamates
MNHN BFI 1877, frontal
 Squamata - Cordylidae
Pseudolacerta sp.1 De Stefano 1903 spinytail lizard
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Cadurcogekko piveteaui5 Hoffstetter 1946 gecko
 Squamata - Amphisbaenidae
Amphisbaenidae indet.2 Gray 1865 worm lizard
four dorsal vertebrae, fragment of right dentary
 Squamata - Blanidae
Blanidae indet.3 Kearney 2003 worm lizard
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Cadurciguana hoffstetteri2 Auge 1987 squamates
incomplete left maxilla
 Squamata -
Eurheloderma gallicum2 Hoffstetter 1957 squamates
MNHN QU 17737, two dorsal vertebrae; USTL BFI 1874, sacral vertebra
 Squamata - Anguidae
sensu lato Ophisaurus sp.3 Daudin 1803 glass lizard
Anguis sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 slow worm
Anguini indet.2 Augé 2005 squamates
Placosaurus sp.2 Gervais 1852 squamates
twenty dorsal vertebrae, some caudal vertebrae, fifty osteoderms
 Squamata - Necrosauridae
Necrosaurus eucarinatus2 Kuhn 1940 squamates
USTL BFI 1873, incomplete parietal
Necrosaurus cayluxi2 Filhol 1873 squamates
numerous dorsal and caudal vertebrae, often eroded