PBDB Collection

Egerkingen, gamma fissure (Eocene of Switzerland)

Also known as Egerkingen

Where: Baselland, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 3.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Egerkingen mammal zone, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Between the Bouxwiller and the Lissieu levels; = MP 14

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J.-L. Hartenberger. 1970. Les mammiferes d'Egerkingen et l'histoire des faunes de l'Eocene d'Europe. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 12(5):886-893 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31719: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 23.05.2003, edited by Susanna Kümmell, Richard Butler, Juan Benito Moreno and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Creodonta -	"Prototomus torvidus" = Allopterodon torvidus¹, Proviverra typica n. gen. n. sp.¹ "Prototomus torvidus" = Allopterodon torvidus¹ Van Valen 1965 creodont En.522 Right maxilla with P4-M1, En.172 Right mandible Proviverra typica n. gen. n. sp.¹ Rütimeyer 1862 creodont Em.18b Skull, En.162 Left maxilla with P4-M2
Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae	Cynohyaenodon trux¹, Cartierodon egerkingensis n. gen. n. sp.³ Cynohyaenodon trux¹ Solé et al. 2014 creodont En.111 Left Maxilla with P2 and M1-M2, Em.17 Fragment of mandible Cartierodon egerkingensis n. gen. n. sp.³ Solé and Mennecart 2019 creodont NMB.Em.11 - holotype
Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae	Pseudosciuridae indet., Protadelomys cartieri Pseudosciuridae indet. Zittel 1893 rodent Protadelomys cartieri Stehlin and Schaub 1951 rodent
Primates - Notharctidae	Anchomomys stehlini n. sp.¹, Anchomomys stehlini n. sp.⁴ Anchomomys stehlini n. sp.¹ Gingerich 1977 primate En.1 Right mandible with p4-m3, Eh.748a left mandible with m1-m2, Eh.749 Left mandible with m3 Anchomomys stehlini n. sp.⁴ Gingerich 1977 primate
Primates - Adapidae	"Adapis priscus" = Leptadapis (Paradapis) priscus, Adapis ruetimeyeri¹, "Adapis sciureus" = Microadapis sciureus "Adapis priscus" = Leptadapis (Paradapis) priscus Stehlin 1916 primate Adapis ruetimeyeri¹ primate Em.2 Right mandible with p2-m3 "Adapis sciureus" = Microadapis sciureus Stehlin 1916 primate Eh.750 Fragment of Left mandible with C-M3, Eh.772 Left upper M1/2
Primates -	Caenopithecus lemuroides Caenopithecus lemuroides Rütimeyer 1862 primate
Primates - Omomyidae	Necrolemur cf. zitteli Necrolemur cf. zitteli Schlosser 1887 tarsier
Primates -	Chasselasia eldredgei n. sp.¹ Chasselasia eldredgei n. sp.¹ Schwartz and Tattersall 1982 primate Eh.751 Fragment of right mandible with m1-m2
Cimolesta - Apatemyidae	Heterohyus europeus, Heterohyus gracilis, Heterohyus fortis Heterohyus europeus eutherian Heterohyus gracilis eutherian Heterohyus fortis eutherian
Aves
Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae	Eleutherornis helveticus n. gen. n. sp.² Eleutherornis helveticus n. gen. n. sp.² Schaub 1940 terror bird
Simonsia lynnae
-	Simonsia lynnae n. sp.¹ Simonsia lynnae n. sp.¹ Schwartz and Tattersall 1982 Eh.770 Fragment of left mandible with m2-m3, Eh.760 Right Mandible with m2-m3, Eh.764 Fragment of left mandible with m2-m3

¹Costeur and Schneider 2011; ²Schaub 1940; ³Solé and Mennecart 2019; ⁴Sudre 1978