Leval (Trieu) (Eocene of Belgium)

Also known as Trieu-de-Leval

Where: Leval-Trahegnies, Belgium (50.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tienen Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Early Ypresian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144102: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.04.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon eocaenus
Coryphodon eocaenus Owen 1846 pantodont
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
"Crocodylus depressifrons" = Asiatosuchus depressifrons2
"Crocodylus depressifrons" = Asiatosuchus depressifrons2 Blainville 1855 crocodilian
IRSNB R254 (IG8368; incomplete skeleton); IRSNB IG 8558 (dorsal vertebra); IRSNB IG 8699 (cervical vertebra); IRSNB IG 8792 (four caudal vertebrae and one large phalanx); IRSNB IG 8979 (femur and seven fragmentary vertebrae and 10 fragments)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1, "Palaeotrionyx aff. vittatus" = Axestemys vittata1, "Trionyx levalensis n. sp." = Axestemys vittata
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
small form without preneural
"Palaeotrionyx aff. vittatus" = Axestemys vittata1 Pomel 1847 softshell turtle
"Trionyx levalensis n. sp." = Axestemys vittata Pomel 1847 softshell turtle
1Broin 1977; 2Delfino and Smith 2009