Castrais: Bartonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cebochoeridae
? Cebochoerus helveticus (Pictet and Humbert 1869)
? Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Cebochoerus) helveticus
Cebochoerus campichii Pictet 1855
recombined as Acotherulum campichii
Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Gervachoerus) campichii
Mammalia - Xiphodontidae
Xiphodon castrense Kowalevsky 1873
corrected as Xiphodon castrensis
Mammalia - Anoplotheriidae
Catodontherium ? paquieri Stehlin 1910
Dacrytherium elegans Filhol 1884
Mammalia - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus lautricensis
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Adapis parisiensis Blainville 1841
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo castrensis n. sp. Bergounioux 1935
Pérez-García et al. 2016
nomen dubium belonging to Testudinidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Broin 1977
Reptilia - Testudines
Allaeochelys parayrei n. sp. Noulet 1867
Lapparent de Broin 2001
Castresia munieri n. gen., n. sp. De Stefano 1902
De Stefano 1902
synonym of Allaeochelys parayrei
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Polysternum mengaudi n. sp. Bergounioux 1935
Bergounioux 1935
nomen dubium belonging to Neochelys
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Midi-Pyrenees Region County:Tarn Departement
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 2.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 1.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:245 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Eocene - Middle Eocene
*International age/stage:Bartonian - Bartonian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Marinesien - Early/Lower Marinesien
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Stratigraphy comments: The collection name has been used in the literature to cover several sub-collections (see a.k.a. field) that cannot be isolated. These sub-collections do not have exactly the same age but are close to the Robiac level (Lower Marinesian).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Temporal resolution:condensed
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:ref. 8517 deals only with artiodactyls and primates
Metadata
Also known as:La Millette, Sicardens, Lautrec, Montespieu, Braconnac, Campans, Alzieux, Molinie, La Fosse, Peyregoux, Realmont, La Massale, La Badayre, Labarthie.
Database number:31634
Authorizer:E. Fara, P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos, D. Nicholson, P. Mannion Enterer:E. Fara, P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos, D. Nicholson, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-20 02:30:03 Last modified:2016-08-20 23:11:36
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-20 02:30:03
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:

60872 F. M. Bergounioux. 1935. Contribution a l'étude paléontologique des chéloniens: chéloniens fossiles du bassin d'Aquitaine. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 25:1-214 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
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]
64347 G. De Stefano. 1902. Un nuovo chelonide della famiglia Trionychidae appartenente all’eocene francese. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 21(2):389-397 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
56999 F. Lapparent de Broin. 2001. The European turtle fauna from the Triassic to the Present. Dumerilia 4(3):155-217 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]
58692 F. Lapparent de Broin. 2003. Neochelys sp. (Chelonii, Erymnochelyinae), from Silveirinha, early Eocene, Portugal. Ciencias da Terra (UNL) 15:117-132 [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]