Saint-Henri: Chattian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Clemmys laurenti n. sp. Bergounioux 1934
recombined as Provencemys laurenti
Lectotype MHNM 1982-826, Paralectotype UP-AM1.
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Broilia massiliensis n. sp. Bergounioux 1936
recombined as Mauremys massiliensis
Type UCB-L1 92838
Mauremys massiliensis (Bergounioux 1936)
UCB-L1 90305, 90306, 90308.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Protaceratherium albigense (Roman 1912)
Ménouret and Guérin 2009
recombined as Molassitherium albigense
FSL 8543, 8550, 8563; UPM 20028
Diaceratherium massiliae n. sp. Ménouret and Guérin 2009
Ménouret and Guérin 2009
FSL 520287 - type
Ronzotherium romani
Ménouret and Guérin 2009
FSL 8547
Mammalia
Mosaicomeryx quercyi (Jehenne 1987)
Mennecart and Métais 2015
USTL 9326
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pseudocricetodon philippi Hugueney 1971
Kälin 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur County:Bouches-du-Rhône
Coordinates: 43.4° North, 5.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° North, 2.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian Mammal zone: MP 26
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Saint Henri; St Henri; ‘Marseille’
Database number:178156
Authorizer:D. Nicholson, P. Mannion Enterer:D. Nicholson, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-04-22 11:03:08 Last modified:2017-01-26 08:21:38
Access level:the public Released:2016-04-22 11:03:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58591. S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]

Secondary references:

61205 D. Kälin. 2013. A new Oligocene (MP 24) mammal fauna (Dürrenberg, Canton Jura, NW Switzerland) from the eastern slope of the ‘‘Rauracian depression’’. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 106:207-218 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61473 B. Mennecart and G. Métais. 2015. Mosaicomeryx gen. nov., a ruminant mammal from the Oligocene of Europe and the significance of ‘gelocids’. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(7):581-600 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61191 B. Ménouret and C. Guérin. 2009. Diaceratherium massiliae nov. sp. des argiles oligocènes de Saint-André et Saint-Henri à Marseille et de Les Milles près d’Aix-en-Provence (SE de la France), premier grand Rhinocerotidae brachypode européen. Geobios 42:293-327 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]