Egerkingen, 'aberrant siderolithic facies' (Eocene to of Switzerland)

Also known as Egerkingen

Where: Baselland, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• Between the Bouxwiller and the Lissieu levels

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siderite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: This collection gathers all the specimens that could not be assigned to any of the other Egerkingen collections (fissures alpha, beta, etc...) based on the aspect of the fossils and the nature of the matrix. It is a collection 'by default' but that belongs to the Egerkingen fissure complex.

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 31723: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 23.05.2003, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Notharctidae
"Periconodon pygmaeus" = Anchomomys (Fendantia) pygmaeus2
"Periconodon pygmaeus" = Anchomomys (Fendantia) pygmaeus2 Rütimeyer 1890 primate
 Primates -
Caenopithecus lemuroides Rütimeyer 1862 primate
 Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Hyrachyus stehlini odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiodon rhinocerodes Rütimeyer 1862 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Pachynolophus sp., "Anchilophus depereti" = Metanchilophus depereti, "Plagiolophus cartieri" = Palaeotherium cartieri
Pachynolophus sp. Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
"Anchilophus depereti" = Metanchilophus depereti Stehlin 1905 odd-toed ungulate
"Plagiolophus cartieri" = Palaeotherium cartieri Stehlin 1904 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Haplobunodon mulleri even-toed ungulate
Haplobunodon solodurense Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
Rhagatherium kowalevskyi Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Mixtotheriidae
Mixtotherium priscum Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
Cebochoerus cf. suillus even-toed ungulate
Cebochoerus n. subgen. (Gervachoerus) cf. suillus
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Dichobune cf. robertiana Gervais 1848 even-toed ungulate
Meniscodon europaeum Rutimeyer 1888 even-toed ungulate
Mouillacitherium sp. Filhol 1882 even-toed ungulate
Mouillacitherium cartieri Rutimeyer 1891 even-toed ungulate
Hyperdichobune langi2 Rutimeyer 1891 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Homacodontidae
"Lophiotherium pygmaeum" = Antiacodon pygmaeus
"Lophiotherium pygmaeum" = Antiacodon pygmaeus Cope 1872 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Amphimerycidae
Pseudamphimeryx schlosseri Rutimeyer 1891 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Dichodon ruetimeyeri even-toed ungulate
Dichodon simplex Kowalevsky 1874 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Catodontherium buxgovianum Erfurt and Metais 2007 even-toed ungulate
Dacrytherium cf. elegans Filhol 1884 even-toed ungulate
Dacrytherium priscum Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
"Prodissopsalis theriodis n. sp." = Eurotherium theriodis1, Oxyaenoides schlosseri n. sp.1
"Prodissopsalis theriodis n. sp." = Eurotherium theriodis1 Van Valen 1965 creodont
NMB Em.12 - type, Em.14b Left mandible with m3
Oxyaenoides schlosseri n. sp.1 Rütimeyer 1891 creodont
NMB En.235 and 236 - syntypes
 Cimolesta - Apatemyidae