Also known as Sioule valley, Noir d'Auvergne

Where: Auvergne, France (46.1° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• A number of authors working on the fossil flora in the

•schists in this basin think that the age ranges from Eocene to Oligocene. Plants are in layers of silicious "sapropèle" produced by algae.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; schist

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: Fossils are from the Collections of the Laboratoire de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Clermont-Ferrand. The Trionyx specimen (very bad state of preservation) was found in a pyrite nodule.

Primary reference: F.-M. Bergounioux. 1936. Cheloniens fossiles conserves au Laboratoire de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Clermont-Ferrand [Fossil turtles preserved at the geology laboratory of the faculty of sciences of Clermont-Ferrand.]. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 69:50-68 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36688: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 09.02.2004, edited by Terri Cleary

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