Fons 1 (Eocene of France)

Also known as Fons

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region Region, France (43.9° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fons 1 reference level zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• stratified locality

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Garimond, J. A. Remy, and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles données sur le renouvellement des faunes de mammiferes a l'Eocene superieur, d'apres le gisement de Fons (Gard). Colloque interbational CNRS. Problemes actuels en paleontologie-evolution des vertebres (218)611-625 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31756: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 25.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

• incomplete (ref. 8715 deals only with artiodactyls and primates)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Gliravus aff. robiacensis" = Glamys robiacensis
"Gliravus aff. robiacensis" = Glamys robiacensis Hartenberger 1965 dormouse
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Remys garimondi n. sp. rodent
 Primates - Adapidae
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus2
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus2 Filhol 1874 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Microchoerus erinaceus Wood 1844 tarsier
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Saturninia "sp.1" Stehlin 1940 placental
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Stehlinia sp. Revilliod 1919 vesper bat
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Pachynolophus garimondi n. sp.1 Remy 1967 odd-toed ungulate
Propalaeotherium sp. Gervais odd-toed ungulate
"Anchilophus cf. dumasi" = Metanchilophus dumasi Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate
Lophiotherium cf. cervulum Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium siderolithicum Pictet and Humbert 1869 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus sudrei2 Casanovas-Cladellas 1975 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Mouillacitherium elegans2 Filhol 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Paraxiphodon teulonense n. gen. n. sp.2 even-toed ungulate
Leptotheridium cf. lugeoni2 Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Dacrytherium ovinum2 Owen 1857 even-toed ungulate
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran
 Cimolesta - Pantolestidae
Pantolestidae indet. Cope 1884 eutherian