Aigues-Vives 2 (Eocene of France)

Where: Aude, France (43.2° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP13 mammal zone, Gres d’Aigne Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Uppermost part of the Gres d’Aigne Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: F. Solé, J. Falconett, and D. Vidalenc. 2015. New fossil Hyaenodonta (Mammalia, Placentalia) from the Ypresian and Lutetian of France and the evolution of the Proviverrinae in southern Europe. Palaeontology 58(6):1049-1072 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182642: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Oxyaenoides schlosseri Rütimeyer 1891 creodont
MNHN.F.ERH429
Eurotherium theriodis Van Valen 1965 creodont
MNHN.F.ERH427 and 428