Rocourt-Saint-Martin (Eocene of France)

Also known as RSM

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, France (49.2° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 0.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 16 mammal zone, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177582: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 05.04.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudinoidea indet. Gray 1825 turtle
Aquatic Testudinoidea indeterminate within the "Palaeochelys s.l. - Mauremys" group
Landreatchelys oweni Lydekker 1889 turtle
MNHN RSM 1
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Apatemyidae
Heterohyus sudrei Sigé 1975 eutherian
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Metanchilophus sp. Remy 2012 odd-toed ungulate
Lophiotherium sp. Marsh 1871 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium sp. Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium siderolithicum Pictet and Humbert 1869 odd-toed ungulate
Plagiolophus sp. Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiodontidae indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
Lophiodon lautricense Noulet 1851 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
"Chasmotherium cf. cartieri" = Hyrachyus
"Chasmotherium cf. cartieri" = Hyrachyus odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Amphirhagatherium sp. Deperet 1908 even-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glamys aff. robiacensis Hartenberger 1965 dormouse
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Pseudoltinomys "sp. 2" Lavocat 1951 rodent
RSM70
Elfomys tobieni Thaler 1966 rodent
RSM61-66
Estellomys sp. Hartenberger 1971 rodent
Paradelomys crusafonti Thaler 1966 rodent
RSM31 and 32
 Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Treposciurus cf. preecei Hooker 1986 rodent
RSM10-14, 18, 19 and 21
Sciuroides russelli Hartenberger and Louis 1976 rodent
 Primates - Omomyidae
Microchoerus cf. wardi Hooker 1986 tarsier
 Primates - Adapidae
Adapidae indet. Trouessart 1879 primate
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae