Falaise de Baby: Priabonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cebochoeridae
Acotherulum (Acotherulum) saturninum Gervais 1850
2 specimens
Mammalia - Dichobunidae
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822
3 specimens
Mammalia - Amphimerycidae
Amphimeryx murinus Cuvier 1822
7 specimens
Mammalia - Xiphodontidae
Xiphodon gracile Cuvier 1822
Mammalia - Anoplotheriidae
Diplobune secundaria Cuvier 1822
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Cheirogaster maurini n. gen., n. sp. Bergounioux 1935
Broin 1977
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
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% 7400J. 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]