Laure-Minervois (Eocene of France)

Where: Aude, France (43.3° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• from the late Lutetian or more probably from the early Barthonian; ‘Grès de Carcassonne’ (Carcassonne sandstones)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Finestres in 1919

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78249: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.01.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Atacisaurus glareae n. sp. Astre 1931 crocodilian
Type (anterior portion of mandible) - lost
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiaspis occitanicus Deperet 1910 odd-toed ungulate
mut. carcassense