Bressaucourt: Rupelian, Switzerland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ronzotherium filholi
Osborn 1900
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| part of juvenile mandible (d1)–d2–d3 dext. (OB7) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Amynodontidae
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Cadurcotherium minus
Filhol 1880
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| m2 dext. (D3473) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Switzerland | State/province: | Canton Jura | County: | Porrentruy |
| Coordinates: | 47.4° North, 7.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.8° North, 3.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rupelian | Other zone: | MP 21-22 |
| Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "As a result, the rhinocerotoids from Bressaucourt are probably related to the strictly continental beds of Conglomérats de Porrentruy, deposited just after the first Rhenish marine incursion and dated to the biostratigraphical interval MP21/22–base MP22 (ca.32.6 Ma)" (From Becker, 2009); was MP 21/22 Mamal Paleogene zone |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous gravel |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182608 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | J. Benito Moreno |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-10 12:47:42 | Last modified: | 2019-03-26 23:03:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-10 12:47:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60785. | D. Becker. 2009. Earliest record of rhinocerotoids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Switzerland: systematics and biostratigraphy. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 102:489-504 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno/M. Uhen] |