Escamps C: MP 19, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anguidae
Helvetisaurus picteti Hoffstetter 1942
Augé 2005 5 specimens
incomplete right dentary, four dorsal vertebrae
Reptilia - Blanidae
Blanidae indet. Kearney 2003
Auge 2012 2 specimens
USTL ECC 2508, complete left maxilla, incomplete right maxilla; ECC 2509, eighteen trunk vertebrae
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Cadurciguana hoffstetteri n. gen., n. sp. Auge 1987
Augé 1987
Pseudolacerta lamandini Filhol 1877
Augé 1987
recombined as Geiseltaliellus lamandini
Reptilia - Cordylidae
Pseudolacerta mucronata Filhol 1877
Augé 1987
Pseudolacerta quercyini Augé 2005
Augé 2005 2 specimens
two incomplete left dentaries
Reptilia - Coraciiformes - Geranopteridae
Geranopterus alatus Milne-Edwards 1892
Mayr and Mourer-Chauviré 2000
ECC specimens from "Escamps"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Oltinomys platyceps
Vianey-Liaud 1974
Patriotheridomys altus Vianey-Liaud 1974
Hartenberger and Vianey-Liaud 1978
Mammalia - Pseudorhyncocyonidae
Pseudorhyncocyon cayluxi Filhol 1892
Sigé 1974
ECC 144
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region County:Lot Departement
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 1.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 2.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:260 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene - Eocene
*International age/stage:Priabonian - Priabonian *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Ludien - Late/Upper Ludien
Key time interval:MP 19 Zone: Escamps
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents
MP 19 according to Mayr and Mourer-Chauviré 2000
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: phosphorite
Environment:karst indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:incomplete
Metadata
Database number:12845
Authorizer:E. Fara, P. Mannion, P. Barrett, J. Alroy Enterer:E. Fara, J. Alroy, P. Mannion, T. Cleary
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2001-12-20 07:23:41 Last modified:2008-11-05 20:22:38
Access level:the public Released:2001-12-20 07:23:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12515. L. de Bonis, J.-Y. Crochet, J. C. Rage, B. Sige, J. Sudre and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1973. Nouvelles faunes de vertebres oligocenes des phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (174)105-113 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

42835% 20820M. Augé. 1987. Les Cordylidae (Reptilia, Lacertilia) de l'Eocène français. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 9(2):181-196 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]
59290 M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
59389 M. L. Auge. 2012. Amphisbaenians from the European Eocene: a biogeographical review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92(4):425-443 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
61377 J.-L. Hartenberger and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1978. La poche a phosphate de Ste-Néboule (Lot) et sa faune de vertebres du Ludien Superieur. 13. - Rongeurs. Palaeovertebrata 8(2-4):313-318 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
28401 G. Mayr and C. Mourer-Chauviré. 2000. Rollers (Aves: Coraciiformes s.s.) from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany) and the Upper Eocene of the Quercy (France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):533-546 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
61802 B. Sigé. 1974. Pseudorhyncocyon cayluxi Filhol, 1892 insectivore géant des Phosphorites du Quercy. Vertebrata Palasiatica 6(1-2):33-46 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
85175% 7400J. Sudre. 1978. Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution. Memoires et Travaux de l'Institut de Montpellier de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 7:1-229 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]
61378 M. Vianey-Liaud. 1974. Les rongeurs de l'Oligocène inférieur d'Escamps. Palaeovertebrata 6:197-241 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]