Where: Picardie Region, France (49.1° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 0.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Robiac zone, Calcaire de Saint-Ouen Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents. A stratified locality. The fossiliferous level is 3 to 4 cm thick and is located 4.5 m above a level of green marls (Mortefontaine Formation); about the same level than Robiac
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Not accessible anymore
Primary reference: P. Louis and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles donnees sur les primates de l'Eocene superieur europeen. Colloque international CNRS, Problemes actuels de paleontologie - evolution des vertebres (218)805-828 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12847: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Terri Cleary, Philip Mannion and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Planorbis sp. Muller 1774 snail | |
Lymnaea sp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Amphibia | |
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Mammalia | |
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Theridomys sp. Jourdan 1837 rodent | |
Sciuroides russelli n. sp.5
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"Anchomomys" grisollensis n. sp.
"Anchomomys" grisollensis n. sp. primate | |
Adapis parisiensis Blainville 1841 primate | |
Microchoerus aff. erinaceus Wood 1844 tarsier
Pseudoloris crusafonti n. sp. Louis and Sudre 1975 tarsier
Necrolemur zitteli Schlosser 1887 tarsier | |
Saturninia sp. Stehlin 1940 placental | |
Chiroptera "sp.1" Blumenbach 1779 bat
Chiroptera "sp.2" Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
"Anthracobunodon louisi n. sp." = Amphirhagatherium louisi6
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"Cebochoerus campichii" = Acotherulum campichii6
"Cebochoerus campichii" = Acotherulum campichii6 Pictet 1855 even-toed ungulate Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Gervachoerus) campichii
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? Proviverra sp. Rütimeyer 1862 creodont | |
? Miacis sp. Cope 1872 placental | |
Apatemyidae indet. Matthew 1909 eutherian | |
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Reptilia | |
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Cadurceryx sp. Hoffstetter and Rage 1972 sand boa
Boinae "large size" Gray 1825 boa
Boinae "medium size" Gray 1825 boa | |
Dormaalisaurus girardoti3 Augé and Smith 2002 squamates seven incomplete right dentaries, seven incomplete left dentaries, two incomplete left maxillae, one incomplete right maxilla
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Louisamphisbaena ferox n. gen. n. sp.4
Louisamphisbaena ferox n. gen. n. sp.4 Auge 2012 worm lizard MNHN GRI 17494 (holotype), incomplete right maxilla; GRI 17495, incomplete left dentary; GRI 17497, incomplete dentary; GRI 17496, incomplete left maxilla
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Geiseltaliellus sp.3 Kuhn 1944 squamates four fragmentary left dentaries; incomplete right maxilla; four fragmentary jaws; two quadrates
Geiseltaliellus grisolli n. sp.3 Augé 2005 squamates MNHN GRI 17405 (holotype), incomplete right dentary; MNHN collection also includes three incomplete right dentaries, three incomplete left dentaries, two incomplete left maxillae and three premaxillae
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Anguidae indet. Gray 1825 squamates
Helvetisaurus "indet. Forme A"3 Augé 2005 squamates very incomplete left dentary, incomplete right maxilla, some dorsal vertebrae. Forme B is found in Ravet.
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Necrosaurus sp.3 Filhol 1876 squamates a few caudal vertebrae, very incomplete dentary, two jaw fragments, fifteen osteoderms
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Amia sp. Linnaeus 1766 bowfin | |
Adelomys | |