Vachères (Oligocene of France)

Where: Alpes-de-Haute Provence, France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: 25 mammal zone, Urgonian Group, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by B. Labesse

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Ménouret. 2014. Gisements paléontologiques à mammifères ou empreintes de pas de mammifères du Parc naturel régional du Luberon. Courrier scientifique du Parc naturel régional du Luberon et de la Réserve de biosphère Luberon-Lure 12:56-74 [P. Coster/P. Coster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200437: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 04.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
Bachitherium cf. insigne Filhol 1882 ruminant
 Chiroptera - Molossidae
Tadarida cf. stelhini free-tailed bat
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudininei indet. de Broin and de la Fuente 1993 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle