Sainte-Eulalie (Eocene of France)

Also known as Sainte Eulalie

Where: Hérault, France (43.3° N, 2.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 8 + 9 mammal zone, Grès d'Assignan Formation (Carcassonne Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, coarse-grained, red, yellow sandstone and marl

• It comes from a layerof reddish-yellowish coarse-grained molasse–sandstone with fine continental marls intervals bearing abundant small bivalves and lignite fragments.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: L. Danilo, J. A. Remy, M. Vianey-Liaud, B. Marandat, J. Sudre and F. Lihoreau. 2013. A new Eocene locality in southern France sheds light on the basal radiation of Palaeotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1):195-215 [M. Shalap/M. Shalap/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181563: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 16.09.2016, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Dissacus sp.
Dissacus sp. Cope 1881 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiaspis sp.
Lophiaspis sp. Depéret 1910 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Pachynolophus eulaliensis n. sp.
Pachynolophus eulaliensis n. sp. Danilo et al. 2013 odd-toed ungulate
UM SEL-101 - type
 Primates - Notharctidae
"cf. Agerina sp." = Agerinia
"cf. Agerina sp." = Agerinia Crusafont-Pairó and Golpe-Posse 1973 primate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys cf. liriae2
Neochelys cf. liriae2 Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2013 sideneck turtle
MNHN.F.EBA 514
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Eulalichelys labarrerei n. gen. n. sp.1
Eulalichelys labarrerei n. gen. n. sp.1 Godinot et al. 2018 turtle
MNHN.F.EBA 351, holotype
1Godinot et al. 2018; 2Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2015