La Livinière (Eocene of France)

Where: Herault, France (43.3° N, 2.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 1.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Bartonian (MP15) but the age has been strongly criticized by Comte et al. (2012) and might be close to MP11 (following Godinot et al. 2018).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Richard. 1946. Contribution a l'étude du basin d'Aquitaine, Les Gisements de Mammiferes Tertiares. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Serie 24(52):1-380 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78248: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.01.2008, edited by Philip Mannion and David Nicholson

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Pachynolophus sp. Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
Pachynolophus cesserasicus Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate
Pachynolophus duvali Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiaspis occitanicus Deperet 1910 odd-toed ungulate
mut. carcassense
Lophiodon leptorhynchum Filhol 1888 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Lophiobunodon minervoisensis n. gen. n. sp. Deperet 1908 even-toed ungulate
FSL 3017 - type
Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys sp.2 Bergounioux 1954 sideneck turtle
 Testudines -
? Francellia sp.1 Hervet 2004 turtle
UCB-L1 92836, UCB-L1 92179
 Loricata -
cf. Iberosuchus sp.3 Antunes 1975 crocodilian
FSL 330 (teeth, jugals, vertebrae, dermal scutes and limb bones)