Also known as Mauremont
Where: Switzerland (46.8° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 5.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Escamps level zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
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 31743: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 24.05.2003, edited by Terri Cleary and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Microchoerus ornatus n. sp.
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Rhagatherium valdense Pictet 1857 even-toed ungulate
Choeropotamus depereti Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate | |
Acotherulum (Acotherulum) saturninum Gervais 1850 even-toed ungulate
Acotherulum (Acotherulum) pumilum Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate | |
Hyperdichobune spectabilis n. sp., "Dichobune spinifera n. sp." = Hyperdichobune spinifera
"Dichobune spinifera n. sp." = Hyperdichobune spinifera Stehlin 1906 even-toed ungulate Mt.147 Right maxilla with D3-M2
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"Oxacron valdense n. sp." = Paroxacron valdense4
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Amphimeryx murinus Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate | |
Diplobune cf. secundaria Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
Anoplotherium sp. Cuvier 1804 even-toed ungulate | |
Gelocus minor Pavlov 1900 ruminant | |
Reptilia | |
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Helvetisaurus picteti n. gen. n. sp.1 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates ML no. unknown, plate VIII in Pictet 1855-57 (holotype), lower jaw and a portion of cranial base
Paraxestops stehlini n. gen. n. sp.1 Hoffstetter 1962 squamates NHMB fig. 1C and plate VI, fig. 2 in Hoffstetter 1962 (holotype), frontal; NHMB additional specimens: left mandible, about forty osteoderms, ?juvenile femur; NHMB Mt 934, ?cervical vertebra; NHMB Mt 940, 954, and 953, ?dorsal vertebrae; Mt 935, ?sacral vertebra; Mt 932, ?caudal vertebra
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Alligatoroidea indet.3 Gray 1844 crocodilian five unnumbered cranial fragments, a fragment of the retroarticular process and two isolated teeth; originally referred to Diplocynodon cf. hantoniensis by Pictet et al. (1857)
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