Dieupentale (Oligocene of France)

Where: Tarn-et-Garonne, France (43.9° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• upper Stampian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181648: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.09.2016, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Goupilictis minor2 Dehm 1935 bear-dog
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon leptorhynchus3 Laizer and Parieu 1838 creodont
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo chailloti n. sp.1 turtle
"=Ergilemys ?"
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster emydoides Pomel 1847 turtle