Saint-Maximin (MP 13): Lutetian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
cf. Anchomomys sp. Stehlin 1916
López-Torres et al. 2018
formerly identified as Arcius sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Protadelomys maximini n. sp. Escarguel 1998
Comte et al. 2012
Reptilia
Scolecophidia indet. Duméril and Bibron 1844
Reptilia - Tropidophiidae
Dunnophis sp. Hecht 1959
Reptilia - Boidae
Boidae indet. Gray 1825
Erycinae sp. Bonaparte 1825
Reptilia
? Eoanilius sp. Rage 1974
Reptilia - Russellophiidae
Russellophiidae indet. (Rage 1978)
original and current combination Russellopheidae
Reptilia - Necrosauridae
? Necrosauridae indet. Hoffstetter 1943
Necrosaurus sp. Filhol 1876
Augé 2005 1 specimen
?osteoderm
Reptilia - Anguidae
Melanosaurini indet. Sullivan 1979
Glyptosaurini indet. Sullivan 1979
Anguinae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Agamidae
? Tinosaurus sp. (Marsh 1872)
synonym of Saniwa
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
cf. Salamandra sp. Laurenti 1768
Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelodytidae
? Pelodytidae indet. Cope 1866
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Gard
Coordinates: 43.4° North, 6.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.3° North, 2.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59129
Authorizer:J. Head, P. Barrett, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Head, T. Cleary, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-14 20:43:29 Last modified:2006-03-14 22:43:29
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-14 20:43:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16873. S. Duffaud and J.-C. Rage. 1997. Les remplissages karstiques polyphasés (Éocène, Oligocène, Pliocène) de Saint-Maximin (Phosphorites du Gard) et leur apport à la connaissance des faunes Européennes, notamment pour l’Éocène Moyen (MP 13). 2.-Systématique: amphibiens et reptiles. École Pratique des Hautes Études. Mémoires et Travaux de l’Institut de Montpellier 21:729-735 [J. Head/J. Head]

Secondary references:

59290 M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
61550 B. Comte, M. Sabatier, B. Marandat and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2012. Les rongeurs de Chéry-Chartreuve et Rocourt-Saint-Martin (est du bassin de Paris; Aisne, France). Leur place parmi les faunes de l'Eocène Moyen d'Europe. Palaeovertebrata 37(4-5):167-271 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
66860 S. López-Torres, M. T. Silcox, and P. A. Holroyd. 2018. New omomyoids (Euprimates, Mammalia) from the late Uintan of southern California, USA, and the question of the extinction of the Paromomyidae (Plesiadapiformes, Primates). Palaeontologia Electronica 21.3.37A:1-28 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]