Montmartre: Priabonian, France
collected by Cuvier, Gervais
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Dichobunidae
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Dichobune leporina n. gen., n. sp.
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Amphimerycidae
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Amphimeryx murinus
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Xiphodontidae
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Xiphodon gracile
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Haplomeryx obliquus
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Anoplotheriidae
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Anoplotherium commune
Cuvier 1804
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Anoplotherium laurillardi
Pomel 1851
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Diplobune secundaria
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Choeropotamidae
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Choeropotamus parisiensis
Cuvier 1822
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Sudre 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Palaeotherium sp.
Cuvier 1804
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MacPhee et al. 2021 | |||||||||
| MNHN GY-424 | ||||||||||
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Palaeotherium curtum
Cuvier 1812
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MacPhee et al. 2021 | |||||||||
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Palaeotherium siderolithicum
Pictet and Humbert 1869
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Remy 2015 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Peratherium cuvieri
Fisher 1829
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Crochet 1978 | |||||||||
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Amphiperatherium minutum
Aymard 1846
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Crochet 1978 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Cheirogaster sp.
Bergounioux 1935
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Hervet 2004 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Emys parisiensis n. sp.
Gray 1831
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Hervet 2004 | |||||||||
| recombined as Cuvierichelys parisiensis | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Broin 1977 | |||||||||
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= Trionyx parisiensis n. sp.
Gray 1831
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Gray 1831 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Trionychidae | ||||||||||
| MNHN (holotype), a costal | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Accipitriformes
- Accipitridae
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Palaeocircus cuvieri
Milne-Edwards 1871
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Upupiformes
- Laurillardiidae
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Laurillardia munieri
Flot 1891
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Laurillardia longirostris
Milne-Edwards 1869
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Laurillardia parisiensis
Flot 1891
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Paridae
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? Sitta cuvieri n. sp.
Gervais 1852
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Gervais 1852 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| recombined as Palaegithalus cuvieri | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Rallidae
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Quercyrallus ludianus n. sp.
Brodkorb 1963
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Brodkorb 1963 | |||||||||
| "Ralllus intermedius" type of Milne-Edwards 1868 from the "gypse de Montmartre, a formation that represents the Ludian stage of the Upper Eocene" | ||||||||||
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Ludiortyx hoffmanni
(Gervais 1852)
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Numenius gypsorum
Gervais 1844
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
| recombined as Montirallus gypsorum | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Strigiformes
- Strigidae
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Necrobyas rossignoli
Milne-Edwards 1891
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Mourer-Chauviré 1987 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Strigiformes
- Tytonidae
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Nocturnavis incerta
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Mourer-Chauviré 1987 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Cuculiformes
- Cuculidae
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? Centropus antiquus n. sp.
Gervais 1852
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Gervais 1852 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Coraciiformes
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Cryptornis antiquus
Gervais 1848
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Coraciiformes | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Cariamiformes
- Cariamidae
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Gypsornis cuvieri
Milne-Edwards 1869
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pelecaniformes
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Protopelicanus cuvierii
Reichenbach 1852
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Milkovsky 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Type series: MNHN 8258 GY1, 8243, 8242, 8249, 8259, 8238, 8236 GY7, 8262 GY2 and 8239 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Phoenicopteriformes
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Agnopterus laurillardi
Milne-Edwards 1869
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Brunet 1970 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Ile-de-France Region | County: | Paris |
| Coordinates: | 48.9° North, 2.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.4° North, 1.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 50 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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 | Mammal zone: | Montmartre |
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gypsiferous not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
| Collectors: | Cuvier, Gervais |
| Taxonomic list comments:incomplete | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Butte Montmartre, Paris | ||
| Database number: | 31739 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, M. Uhen, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | E. Fara, M. Carrano, J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion, G. Varnham, M. Uhen, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-05-24 07:02:20 | Last modified: | 2019-04-09 11:49:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-24 07:02:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13337. | G. Cuvier. 1804. Memoire sur le squelette presque entier d'un petit quadrupede du genre des sarigues, trouvé dans la pierre a platre des environs de Paris. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 5:277-292 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 28478 | P. Brodkorb. 1963. The name of a fossil rail and Its date of publication. Auk 80(4):542 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 65486 | J. Brunet. 1970. Oiseaux de l'Éocène supérieur du bassin de Paris. Annales de Paléontologie. Vertébrés 56:3-57 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 8622 | 5% 33840 | J.-Y. Crochet. 1978. La poche a phosphate de Ste Neboule (Lot) et sa faune de vertebres du Ludien Superieur. 7. Didelphides (Marsupiaux). Palaeovertebrata 8(2-4):231-242 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] |
| 28567 | P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
| 12784 | P. Gervais. 1859. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés dont on Trouve les Ossements Enfouis dans le Sol de la France et sur leur Comparaison aves les Espèces Propres aux Autres Régions du Globe (Deuxième Edition) [French Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Vertebrate Animals Whose Bones Are Found Buried in the Soil of France and their Comparison with Species Specific to Other Regions of the Globe (Second Edition)] 544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
| 63677 | J. E. Gray. 1831. Synopsis Reptilium. Part I. Cataphracta. Tortoises, Crocodiles, Enaliosauria. 1-85 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 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] | |
| 81723 | R. D. E. MacPhee, S. Hernández del Pino, A. Kramarz, A. M. Forasiepi, M. Bond and R. B. Sulser. 2021. Cranial morphology and phylogenetic relationships of Trigonostylops wortmani, an Eocene South American native ungulate. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 449(1):1-183 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 57785 | J. Milkovsky. 1995. Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of fossil birds described by H.G.L. Reichenbach in 1852. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181:311-316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 77082 | C. Mourer-Chauviré. 1987. The owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Phosphorites du Quercy (France): Systematics, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Documents des laboratories des géologie, Lyon 99:89-135 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61562 | J. A. Remy. 2015. Les Périssodactyles (Mammalia) du gisement Bartonien supérieur de Robiac (Éocène moyen du Gard, Sud de la France). Palaeovertebrata 39(1):e1:1-98 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 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] |