Soumailles (Oligocene of France)

Where: Limousin, France (45.2° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Soumailles reference level zone, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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 31753: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 24.05.2003, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• incomplete
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
Eusmilus bidentatus2 Filhol 1872 false sabre-tooth
FSB specimens
 Artiodactyla - Entelodontidae
Entelodon antiquum even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Cebochoeridae
Acotherulum (Acotherulum) cf. quercyi Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Blainvillimys langei3 Vianey-Liaud 1972 rodent
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
"Geochelonine indetermine"