Where: France (43.9° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 2.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• no age information is given by Flot (1895). Flot (1896) assigns a "Helvetien" (=Burdigalian) age, which is confirmed by Peyrot 1933.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dubalen
• Repository: Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux (for Nautilus dubaleni at least)
Primary reference: L. Flot. 1895. Un grand nombre dossements de Cetaces fossiles qui ont ete recuellis par M. Dubalene, a Oro, pres Dax et a Mont-de-Marsan. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 23(3):114-115 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57732: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.12.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus dubaleni n. sp." = Eutrephoceras dubaleni2
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Bivalvia | |
Cardita jouanneti clam | |
Mammalia | |
"Halitherium fossile" = Metaxytherium medium
"Halitherium fossile" = Metaxytherium medium Desmarest 1822 dugong | |
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Balaenula balaenopsis Van Beneden 1872 right whale | |
"Squalodon grateloupi" = Squalodon grateloupii
"Squalodon grateloupi" = Squalodon grateloupii von Meyer 1843 toothed whale |