Also known as Lignites de Muirancourt
Where: Oise, France (49.6° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 0.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MP7 mammal zone, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• Argiles à Lignites du Soissonnais
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lignite
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: M. Delfino and T. Smith. 2009. A reassessment of the morphology and taxonomic status of ‘Crocodylus’ depressifrons Blainville, 1855 (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) based on the Early Eocene remains from Belgium. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156:140-167 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144104: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.04.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Crocodylus depressifrons n. sp." = Asiatosuchus depressifrons
"Crocodylus depressifrons n. sp." = Asiatosuchus depressifrons Blainville 1855 crocodilian MNHN G 160 (partial skull); MNHN G 156 (casts of the skull and lower jaw)
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"Palaeotrionyx vittatus n. sp." = Axestemys vittata1
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| Mammalia | |
Palaeonictis gigantea n. sp.2
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