Fons 2 (Eocene of France)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France (43.9° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• stratified locality

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Garimond, J. A. Remy, and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles données sur le renouvellement des faunes de mammiferes a l'Eocene superieur, d'apres le gisement de Fons (Gard). Colloque interbational CNRS. Problemes actuels en paleontologie-evolution des vertebres (218)611-625 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31757: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 25.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

• incomplete (ref. 8715 deals only with artiodactyls and primates)
Mammalia
 Primates - Omomyidae
Microchoerus erinaceus Wood 1844 tarsier
 Primates - Adapidae
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus
"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus Filhol 1874 primate
 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Leptotheridium cf. lugeoni Stehlin 1910 even-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847 odd-toed ungulate
Propalaeotherium sp. Gervais odd-toed ungulate
"Anchilophus cf. dumasi" = Metanchilophus dumasi Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate
 Cimolesta - Apatemyidae
Apatemyidae "sp.2" Matthew 1909 eutherian