Where: Aude, France (43.2° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 2 mammal zone, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: pond; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
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 178480: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 04.05.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chrysemys astrei n. sp." = Palaeochelys astrei
"Chrysemys astrei n. sp." = Palaeochelys astrei Bergounioux 1935 turtle | |
Trionyx mourieri n. sp.1, Trionyx chaubeti n. sp.1, Trionyx ciryi n. sp.1, Trionyx acutiformis n. sp.1, Trionyx sp.2
Trionyx mourieri n. sp.1 Bergounioux 1935 softshell turtle MHNT PAL2011.0.82 (holotype), the imprint of a shell
Trionyx chaubeti n. sp.1 Bergounioux 1935 softshell turtle LG-FSM (holotype), left part of a carapace
Trionyx ciryi n. sp.1 Bergounioux 1935 softshell turtle LGB-UD (syntype), a carapace fragment (Bergounioux 1935, not figured), now lost
Trionyx acutiformis n. sp.1 Bergounioux 1935 softshell turtle LG-FSM (holotype), a carapace fragment
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