Falaise de Baby: Priabonian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cebochoeridae
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Acotherulum (Acotherulum) saturninum
Gervais 1850
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2 specimens | ||||||
Mammalia
- Dichobunidae
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Dichobune leporina
Cuvier 1822
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3 specimens | ||||||
Mammalia
- Amphimerycidae
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Amphimeryx murinus
Cuvier 1822
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7 specimens | ||||||
Mammalia
- Xiphodontidae
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Xiphodon gracile
Cuvier 1822
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Mammalia
- Anoplotheriidae
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Diplobune secundaria
Cuvier 1822
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Cheirogaster maurini n. gen., n. sp.
Bergounioux 1935
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Broin 1977 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Broin 1977 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Aquitaine Region | County: | Gironde Department |
Coordinates: | 44.4° North, 0.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 3.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
*International age/stage: | Priabonian - Priabonian | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Ludien - Late/Upper Ludien |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | Zone: | Escamps Level |
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The site is said to be stratified and not karstic |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:only artiodactyls are reported in ref. 8715. |
Metadata
Database number: | 31586 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Fara, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | E. Fara, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-05-19 09:23:29 | Last modified: | 2017-10-03 07:54:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-19 09:23:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
8517. | 5% 7400 | J. Sudre. 1978. Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution. Memoires et Travaux de l'Institut de Montpellier de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 7:1-229 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
60047 | F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
59713 | A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega, and E. Jimenez Fuentes. 2016. Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:648-675 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion] |