Saint-André (Oligocene of France)

Also known as Saint-Andre; Marseille

Where: Bouches-du-Rhone, France (43.4° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 26 mammal zone, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181656: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.09.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Palaeochelys laurenti" = Provencemys laurenti
"Palaeochelys laurenti" = Provencemys laurenti Bergounioux 1934 turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Cheirogaster sp. Bergounioux 1935 turtle
Testudo pusilla Linnaeus 1758 turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys massiliensis Bergounioux 1936 pond turtle
 Testudines - Chelydridae
"Chelydropsis sanctihenrici n. sp." = Chelydropsis decheni
"Chelydropsis sanctihenrici n. sp." = Chelydropsis decheni Meyer 1852 turtle
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
Eggysodon cf. gaudryi2 Rames 1886 odd-toed ungulate
FSL 9525
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diaceratherium massiliae2 Ménouret and Guérin 2009 rhinoceros
NMB Mar 847
Ronzotherium romani2 rhinoceros
FSL 8835
Protaceratherium albigense2 Roman 1912 rhinoceros
FSL 8486
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Paenanthracotherium hippoideum3 Rutimeyer 1856 anthracothere
 Artiodactyla -
Mosaicomeryx quercyi1 Jehenne 1987 ruminant
NMB Mar 640, 667 and 738