Where: Herault, France (43.3° N, 2.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 1.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Bartonian (MP15) but the age has been strongly criticized by Comte et al. (2012) and might be close to MP11 (following Godinot et al. 2018).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Richard. 1946. Contribution a l'étude du basin d'Aquitaine, Les Gisements de Mammiferes Tertiares. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Serie 24(52):1-380 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78248: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.01.2008, edited by Philip Mannion and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pachynolophus sp. Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate
Pachynolophus cesserasicus Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate
Pachynolophus duvali Pomel 1847 odd-toed ungulate | |
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Lophiodon leptorhynchum Filhol 1888 odd-toed ungulate | |
Lophiobunodon minervoisensis n. gen. n. sp.
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cf. Iberosuchus sp.3 Antunes 1975 crocodilian FSL 330 (teeth, jugals, vertebrae, dermal scutes and limb bones)
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