Fons 2: Priabonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Microchoerus erinaceus Wood 1844
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Adapis magnus Filhol 1874
Sudre 1978 2 specimens
recombined as Leptadapis magnus
Mammalia - Xiphodontidae
Leptotheridium cf. lugeoni Stehlin 1910
Sudre 1978 1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Anchilophus cf. dumasi Gervais 1849
recombined as Metanchilophus dumasi
Propalaeotherium sp. Gervais
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemyidae informal sp.2 Matthew 1909
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon 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:100 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:Early/Lower Ludien - Early/Lower Ludien
Key time interval:Priabonian
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
Database number:31757
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-25 02:09:15 Last modified:2007-02-21 12:26:47
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-25 02:09:15
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:

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]