Egerkingen and Oberbuchsiten (General locality) (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: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Costeur and M. Schneider. 2011. Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel. Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182806: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 25.11.2016, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Condylarthra - Paroxyclaenidae
Vulpavoides simplicidens
Vulpavoides simplicidens Van Valen 1965 placental
Em.20 Fragment of left maxilla with M1-M2, and alveoli for p3
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
"Pseudosinopa ruetimeyeri" = Cynohyaenodon
"Pseudosinopa ruetimeyeri" = Cynohyaenodon creodont
En.188 Left mandible
 Creodonta -
Allopterodon torvidus
Allopterodon torvidus Van Valen 1965 creodont
Em.16 Skull fragment
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Haplobunodon solodurense
Haplobunodon solodurense Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
Ef.69 Lower left m3, Ef.117 Lower right p4
 Artiodactyla - Mixtotheriidae
Mixtotherium priscum
Mixtotherium priscum Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
Ef.238 Lower left P4 or D4
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Plesiarctomys spectabilis" = Sciurus spectabilis
"Plesiarctomys spectabilis" = Sciurus spectabilis Major 1873 squirrel
Ef.1003a Fragment of left maxilla with P4-M1, Ef.1003b Fragment of right maxilla with P4-M1, Eg.604 Lower m1/m2, Eg.605 Fragment of left mandible with m1-m3, Ek.228b Lower right m1/m2, Ek.192 Lower right m3
 Primates -
Caenopithecus lemuroides n. sp.
Caenopithecus lemuroides n. sp. Rütimeyer 1862 primate
Ef.383 Fragment of right maxilla with M1-M3
Simonsia lynnae
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Simonsia lynnae
Simonsia lynnae Schwartz and Tattersall 1982
En.2 Fragment of right mandible with p4-m2