Arcis le Ponsart (Eocene of France)

Where: Picardie Region, France (49.2° N, 3.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lissieu Level zone, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• The site is said to be stratified and not karstic.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Sudre. 1978. Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution. Memoires et Travaux de l'Institut de Montpellier de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 7:1-229 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31584: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 19.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

• ref. 8517 deals only with artiodactyles and primates
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Amphimerycidae
Pseudamphimeryx cf. schlosseri Rutimeyer 1891 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
Cebochoerus (Gervachoerus) cf. suillus n. subgen. Gervais 1859 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Hyperdichobune sp. Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
Hyperdichobune langi Rutimeyer 1891 even-toed ungulate
Meniscodon cf. europaeum Rutimeyer 1888 even-toed ungulate
 Primates - Adapidae
Adapis sp. Cuvier 1822 primate
 Primates - Notharctidae
 Primates - Omomyidae
Nannopithex cf. filholi Chantre and Gaillard 1897 tarsier