Lezaun (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.8° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 5.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: SBZ 16 foram zone, middle Member (Urbasa-Andia Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• late Lutetian

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified grainstone

• outer ramp dunes
• cross-bedded orthophragminid grainstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: H. Astibia, N. Bardet, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, A. Payros, V. Buffrenil, J. Elorza, J. Tosquella, A. Berretega, and A. Badiola. 2010. New fossils of Sirenia from the Middle Eocene of Navarre (Western Pyrenees): the oldest West European sea cow record. Geological Magazine 147(5):665-673 [M. Uhen/S. Tucker/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94579: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Samantha Tucker on 01.03.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
? Dugongidae indet. Gray 1821 dugong