Céreste (Oligocene to of France)

Where: France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 2.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 22 to MP 22 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "The fossils from Céreste are found in the 'Calcaires du Montfuron' or in the 'Calcaires de Vachères'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; carbonate

• La formation des Calcaires et Lignites de Sigonce (Oligocène moyen, bassin de Forcalquier, Alpes-de Haute-Provence): Datation à l'aide des mammifères; reconstitution des milieux de dépots
• "Calcaires"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: G. Mayr. 1999. A new trogon from the Middle Oligocene of Céreste, France. The Auk 116(2):427-434 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74638: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.08.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Trogoniformes - Trogonidae
Primotrogon wintersteini n. gen. n. sp.
Primotrogon wintersteini n. gen. n. sp. Mayr 1999 trogon
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Paenanthracotherium hippoideum2 Rutimeyer 1856 anthracothere
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
Bachitherium cf. insigne1 Filhol 1882 ruminant
"G.N. Coll. Loggia"