Falaise de Baby (Eocene of France)

Where: Aquitaine Region, France (44.4° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Escamps Level zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• The site is said to be stratified and not karstic

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 31586: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 19.05.2003, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• only artiodactyls are reported in ref. 8715.
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Cheirogaster maurini n. gen. n. sp.
Cheirogaster maurini n. gen. n. sp. Bergounioux 1935 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Xiphodon gracile Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Diplobune secundaria Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Amphimerycidae
Amphimeryx murinus Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
Acotherulum (Acotherulum) saturninum Gervais 1850 even-toed ungulate