Fons 1: Priabonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Anchilophus cf. gaudini Pictet and Humbert 1869
recombined as Metanchilophus gaudini
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Propalaeotherium sp. Gervais
Lophiotherium cf. cervulum Gervais 1849
Anchilophus cf. dumasi Gervais 1849
recombined as Metanchilophus dumasi
Pachynolophus garimondi n. sp. Remy 1967
Remy 1967
Palaeotherium siderolithicum Pictet and Humbert 1869
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847
Mammalia - Xiphodontidae
Paraxiphodon teulonense n. gen., n. sp.
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
Leptotheridium cf. lugeoni Stehlin 1910
Sudre 1978 5 specimens
Mammalia - Anoplotheriidae
Dacrytherium ovinum (Owen 1857)
Sudre 1978 3 specimens
Mammalia - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus sudrei Casanovas-Cladellas 1975
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
Mammalia - Dichobunidae
Mouillacitherium elegans Filhol 1882
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Saturninia informal sp.1 Stehlin 1940
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
Pantolestidae indet. Cope 1884
Mammalia - Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Remys garimondi n. sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliravus aff. robiacensis Hartenberger 1965
recombined as Glamys robiacensis
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Adapis magnus Filhol 1874
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
recombined as Leptadapis magnus
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Microchoerus erinaceus Wood 1844
1 specimen
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Stehlinia sp. Revilliod 1919
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon Region Region County:Gard Departement
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 4.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.5° North, 0.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:101 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 - Late/Upper Priabonian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Ludien - Early/Lower Ludien
Key time interval:Priabonian Zone: Fons 1 reference level
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: stratified locality
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:incomplete (ref. 8715 deals only with artiodactyls and primates)
Metadata
Also known as:Fons
Database number:31756
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-25 02:03:21 Last modified:2007-02-21 12:26:47
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-25 02:03:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13339. S. Garimond, J. A. Remy, and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles données sur le renouvellement des faunes de mammiferes a l'Eocene superieur, d'apres le gisement de Fons (Gard). Colloque interbational CNRS. Problemes actuels en paleontologie-evolution des vertebres (218)611-625 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]

Secondary references:

25484 J. A. Remy. 1967. Les Palaeotheridae (Perissodactyla) de la faune de Mammifères de Fons 1 (Éocène Supérieur). Palaeovertebrata 1:1-46 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
85175% 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]