Castrais (Eocene of France)

Also known as La Millette, Sicardens, Lautrec, Montespieu, Braconnac, Campans, Alzieux, Molinie, La Fosse, Peyregoux, Realmont, La Massale, La Badayre, Labarthie.

Where: Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (43.6° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• The collection name has been used in the literature to cover several sub-collections (see a.k.a. field) that cannot be isolated. These sub-collections do not have exactly the same age but are close to the Robiac level (Lower Marinesian).

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Sudre. 1978. Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution. Memoires et Travaux de l'Institut de Montpellier de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 7:1-229 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31634: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.05.2003, edited by David Nicholson, Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

• ref. 8517 deals only with artiodactyls and primates
Mammalia
 Primates - Adapidae
Adapis parisiensis Blainville 1841 primate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus lautricensis even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
? Cebochoerus helveticus Pictet and Humbert 1869 even-toed ungulate
? Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Cebochoerus) helveticus
"Cebochoerus campichii" = Acotherulum campichii Pictet 1855 even-toed ungulate
Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Gervachoerus) campichii
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
"Xiphodon castrense" = Xiphodon castrensis
"Xiphodon castrense" = Xiphodon castrensis Kowalevsky 1873 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Catodontherium ? paquieri Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
Dacrytherium elegans Filhol 1884 even-toed ungulate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo castrensis n. sp.5 Bergounioux 1935 turtle
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
"Allaeochelys parayrei n. sp." = Allaeochelys parayrei4, "Castresia munieri n. gen. n. sp." = Allaeochelys parayrei3
"Allaeochelys parayrei n. sp." = Allaeochelys parayrei4 Noulet 1867 turtle
"Castresia munieri n. gen. n. sp." = Allaeochelys parayrei3 Noulet 1867 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.2 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Polysternum mengaudi n. sp.1 Bergounioux 1935 sideneck turtle