Fontienne (Oligocene of France)

Where: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France (44.0° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MP 24 ? mammal zone, Calcaires de Vacheres? Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Stratigraphic provenance is uncertain.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178149: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 21.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
? Cucullemys sp. Hervet 2004 turtle
carapace fragment, material in Musée d'Apt