Gannat sommet (Oligocene of France)

Where: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (46.1° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• MP 30

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Milkovsky. 2009. Evolution of the Cenozoic marine avifaunas of Europe. Annales Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 111(A):357-374 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125329: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2012, edited by Terri Cleary, Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
"Eggysodon pomeli n. sp." = Allacerops pomeli3
"Eggysodon pomeli n. sp." = Allacerops pomeli3 Roman 1910 odd-toed ungulate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster emydoides2 Pomel 1847 turtle
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Pseudeumeces cadurcensis1 Filhol 1877 squamates
RH-B2–0023, left dentary; RH-B2–0025 and RH-B2–2192, two incomplete left dentaries; RH-B2–1240, anterior left dentary; RH-B2–772, anterior right dentary; RH-B2–773 and RH-B2–2193, two incomplete right dentaries; RH-B2–769 and RH-B2–770, two left maxillae; RH-B2–771 and RH-B2–6210, two right maxillae; RH-B2–774, posterior right maxilla; RH-B2–1203, incomplete left maxilla; RH-B2–1273 and RH-B2–6091, two mandible fragments; RH-B2–775, frontal; RH-B2–2190, RH-B2–2198 and RH-B2–2200, three incomplete frontals; RH-B2-1179, parietal; RH-B2–6473, anterior parietal
Aves
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Empheresula arvernensis4 Milne-Edwards 1867 booby