Montmartre (Eocene of France)

Also known as Butte Montmartre, Paris

Where: Ile-de-France Region, France (48.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cuvier, Gervais; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: G. Cuvier. 1804. Memoire sur le squelette presque entier d'un petit quadrupede du genre des sarigues, trouvé dans la pierre a platre des environs de Paris. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 5:277-292 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31739: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 24.05.2003, edited by John Alroy, Mark Uhen, Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion, Matthew Carrano, Grace Varnham and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

• incomplete
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Palaeotherium sp.7 Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate
MNHN GY-424
Palaeotherium curtum7 Cuvier 1812 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium siderolithicum10 Pictet and Humbert 1869 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus parisiensis11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Dichobune leporina n. gen. n. sp.11
Dichobune leporina n. gen. n. sp.11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Amphimerycidae
Amphimeryx murinus11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Haplomeryx obliquus11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
Xiphodon gracile11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Diplobune secundaria11 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
Anoplotherium laurillardi11 Pomel 1851 even-toed ungulate
Anoplotherium commune11 Cuvier 1804 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Peratherium cuvieri3 Fisher 1829 marsupial
Amphiperatherium minutum3 Aymard 1846 marsupial
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Emys parisiensis n. sp." = Cuvierichelys parisiensis6
"Emys parisiensis n. sp." = Cuvierichelys parisiensis6 Gray 1831 turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Cheirogaster sp.6 Bergounioux 1935 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx parisiensis n. sp.5 Gray 1831 softshell turtle
Aves
 Upupiformes - Laurillardiidae
Laurillardia parisiensis2 Flot 1891 bird
Laurillardia longirostris2 Milne-Edwards 1869 bird
Laurillardia munieri2 Flot 1891 bird
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Palaeocircus cuvieri2 Milne-Edwards 1871 hawk
 Passeriformes - Paridae
"? Sitta cuvieri n. sp." = Palaegithalus cuvieri4
"? Sitta cuvieri n. sp." = Palaegithalus cuvieri4 Gervais 1852 perching bird
 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
? Centropus antiquus n. sp.4 Gervais 1852 cuckoo
 Coraciiformes -
Cryptornis antiquus2 Gervais 1848 bird
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Necrobyas rossignoli9 Milne-Edwards 1891 true owl
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Quercyrallus ludianus n. sp.1 Brodkorb 1963 rail
"Ralllus intermedius" type of Milne-Edwards 1868 from the "gypse de Montmartre, a formation that represents the Ludian stage of the Upper Eocene"
"Numenius gypsorum" = Montirallus gypsorum2 Gervais 1844 rail
Ludiortyx hoffmanni2 Gervais 1852 rail
 Cariamiformes - Cariamidae
Gypsornis cuvieri2 Milne-Edwards 1869 seriema
 Pelecaniformes -
Protopelicanus cuvierii8 Reichenbach 1852 bird
Type series: MNHN 8258 GY1, 8243, 8242, 8249, 8259, 8238, 8236 GY7, 8262 GY2 and 8239
 Phoenicopteriformes -
Agnopterus laurillardi2 Milne-Edwards 1869 flamingo