Rians: Early/Lower Eocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus aff. childei (Kühne 1969)
Godinot 1981
RI 273, 348, 363, 393, 413, 414, 376, 394, 418
    = Ectypodus riansensis n. sp. Marandat et al. 2012
Marandat et al. 2012
Mammalia - Leptictidae
? Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872
Godinot 1981
RI 169
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. chandoni Hartenberger 1971
Godinot 1981
RI 315 and 366
? Ailuravinae indet. Michaux 1968
Godinot 1981
RI 325
Paramys cf. pourcyensis Michaux 1964
Godinot 1981
RI 199, 185 and 201
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
cf. Agerinia sp. Crusafont-Pairó and Golpe-Posse 1973
Godinot 1998
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Adapidae indet. Trouessart 1879
Godinot 1981
RI 278 and 333
Pelycodus aff. eppsi Cooper 1932
Godinot 1981
RI 179, 328 and 331
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur cf. fuscus Russell et al. 1967
Godinot 1981
recombined as Arcius fuscus
RI 225
Mammalia - Primates
Donrussellia provincialis n. sp. Godinot 1978
Godinot 1998
RI 170 - type
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
? Nyctitheriidae indet. Simpson 1928
Godinot 1981
GOT 680-1
cf. Leptacodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Godinot 1981
RI 218, 219 and 382
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Archaeonycteridae
cf. Archaeonycteris sp. Revilliod 1917
Godinot 1981
RI 349, 361 and 334
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Hyracotherium aff. cuniculus Owen 1842
Godinot 1981
recombined as Cymbalophus cuniculus
RI 136-139, 145, 183 and 308
? Paschatherium sp. Russell 1963
Godinot 1981
RI 421, 312 and 250
Paschatherium cf. dolloi (Teilhard de Chardin 1927)
Godinot 1981
RI 154, 155, 408, 330, 263, 231, 234, 259, 268, 397, 295, 299, 354, 417, 270, 288, 340, 380, 412, 156, 233, 386, 391, 241, ? 292, 374 and 416
Paschatherium russelli n. sp. Godinot 1978
Godinot 1978
RI 153 - type
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
? Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Godinot 1981
RI 403
Diacodexis gazini n. sp. Godinot 1978
Godinot 1978
RI 164 - type
Mammalia - Creodonta
Proviverra eisenmanni n. sp. Godinot 1981
Godinot 1981
recombined as Eoproviverra eisenmanni
MNHN.F.RI400 - type; referred specimens: MNHN.F.RI203, 204, 362 and 401
Didelphodus cf. absarokae (Cope 1881)
Godinot 1981
RI 202, 205 and 402
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Smith and Smith 2001
RI 275 and RI 276
    = Prototomus cf. mordax
Godinot 1981
    = Galecyon gallus n. sp. Solé et al. 2013
Solé et al. 2013
MNHN RI 275 - type; referred specimen: MNHN RI 276
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
? Miacidae informal sp. 1 Cope 1880
Godinot 1981
? Miacidae informal sp. 2 Cope 1880
Godinot 1981
RI 364
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus itinerans n. sp. Godinot 1978
Godinot 1978
RI 279 - type
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Palaeoryctidae indet. Winge 1917
Godinot 1981
RI 343 and 355
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys sp. Marsh 1872
2 specimens
RI 303, 424, 239 and 284
Mammalia
Peratherium matronense Crochet 1979
Godinot 1981
R1 392 and 378
Amphiperatherium aff. brabantense Crochet 1979
Godinot 1981
RI 379 and 411
Amphiperatherium cf. maximum Crochet 1979
Godinot 1981
RI 220, 296 and 368
Amphiperatherium goethei Crochet 1979
Godinot 1981
RI 385
Peradectes louisi Crochet 1979
Godinot 1981
RI 342, 420, 221, 226, 244 and 252
Reptilia - Testudines
Francellia salouagmirae n. gen., n. sp. Hervet 2004
Hervet 2004
MNHN RI 451 carapace and plastron
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Neochelys arenarum n. sp. Broin 1977
Lapparent de Broin 2003
Type MNHN.F.RI 6
Reptilia
Amphisbaenidae indet. (Gray 1865)
Augé 2005 4 specimens
four dorsal vertebrae
Reptilia - Anguidae
Melanosaurini indet. Sullivan 1979
Augé 2005 1 specimen
incomplete parietal
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Var
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 5.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.1° North, 3.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:363 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene Mammal zone: MP7
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lignites de Soissonais
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: early Sparnacian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:35538
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Barrett, J. Alroy, D. Nicholson, P. Mannion, K. Beard Enterer:M. Carrano, K. Beard, P. Mannion, T. Cleary, J. Alroy, D. Nicholson
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-12-19 13:01:05 Last modified:2016-11-16 06:42:23
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-19 13:01:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9599.5% 31240D. E. Russell, M. Godinot, P. Louis and D. E. Savage. 1979. Apatotheria (Mammalia) de l'Eocène inférieur de France et de Belgique. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, section C: Science de la Terre 1(3):203-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

59290 M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
30284 M. Godinot. 1978. Diagnoses de trois nouvelles especes de mammiferes du Sparnacien de Provence. Compte rendu sommaire des seances de la Societe geologique de France 1978(6):286-288 [K. Beard/K. Beard]
60837 M. Godinot. 1981. Les mammifères de Rians (Eocène inférieur, Provence). Palaeovertebrata 10(2):43-126 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
1679 M. Godinot. 1998. A summary of adapiform systematics and phylogeny. Folia Primatologica 69(Suppl. 1):218-249 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
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]
60868 B. Marandat, S. Adnet, L. Marivaux, A. Martinez, M. Vianey-Liaud and R. Tabuce. 2012. A new mammalian fauna from the earliest Eocene (Ilerdian) of the Corbières (Southern France): palaeobiogeographical implications. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 105:417-434 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
57023 T. Smith and R. Smith. 2001. The creodonts (Mammalia, Ferae) from the Paleocene-Eocene transition in Belgium (Tienen Formation, MP7). Belgian Journal of Zoology 131(2):117-135 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60836 F. Solé, J. Falconnet, and L. Yves. 2014. New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171:878-917 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60840 F. Solé, E. Gheerbrant, and M. Godinot. 2013. Sinopaninae and Arfianinae (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene of Europe and Asia; evidence for dispersal in Laurasia around the Paleocene/Eocene boundary and for an unnoticed faunal turnover in Europe. Geobios 46:313-327 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]