Where: Rhone, France (45.9° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MP14 mammal zone, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Middle Eocene, late Lutetian, MP14 mammalian reference level (approximately 43.5 to 41.2 ma)
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; shale and chert
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: D. Angst, E. Buffetaut, C. Lecuyer and R. Amiot. 2013. ‘‘Terror Birds’’ (Phorusrhacidae) from the Eocene of Europe Imply Trans-Tethys Dispersal. PLoS One 8(11):e80357 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 151252: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Kaled Saraira on 25.09.2013, edited by Mark Uhen, Philip Mannion and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Protadelomys lugdunensis n. sp.2
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Boidae "sp. K"4 Gray 1825 boa A snake referred to as "Boïdé K" by Crochet et al 1981. MHNL Li 338-340, 12 isolated vertebrae; Li 341, perhaps 3 articulated vertebrae
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Szyndlaria aureomontensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Rage and Augé 2010 dwarf boa MHNL Li 331 (holotype), single trunk vertebra; Li 332-334, three almost complete trunk vertebrae; Li 335, one incomplete trunk vertebra; Li 336, perhaps one damaged trunk vertebra
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Plesiolacerta lydekkeri1 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates damaged dorsal vertebra (MHNL Li 302 in ref 43438); MHNL Li 303, perhaps one incomplete humerus
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Rhodanogekko vireti n. gen. n. sp.1
Rhodanogekko vireti n. gen. n. sp.1 Hoffstetter 1946 gecko UCBL (unknown no., fig. 1 in Hoffstetter 1946), frontal (Ref. 43438 gives the holotype as MHNL Li 300)
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Glyptosaurinae indet.4 Marsh 1872 squamates MHNL Li 307, one fragment of maxilla; Li 308, one dentary fragment; Li 309, four fragments of tooth-bearing bone
Anguinae indet.4 Gray 1825 squamates MHNL Li 304, 305, three trunk vertebrae; Li 306, three caudal vertebrae
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Platynota indet.1 Baur 1890 squamates MNNL Li 351, parietal; Li 311, posterior extremity of mandible; Li 310, fragment of bone with two tooth bases; Li 312, centrum of an axis; Li 313, incomplete cervical vertebra; Li 314, a dorsal vertebra; Li 315, four fragmentary dorsal vertebrae; Li 316, two caudal vertebrae; Li 317, perhaps one incomplete pelvis; Li 318, perhaps one fragment of humerus
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Sebecosuchia indet.3 Colbert 1946 crocodilian UCBL-FSL 530863a–c, three isolated teeth; MHNL 341, a set of isolated osteoderms including 5 complete and 6 fragmentary dorsal elements
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Eleutherornis cotei Galliard 1936 terror bird | |