Arcis le Ponsart: Bartonian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
"Anchomomys" cf. grisollensis
8 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Adapis sp. Cuvier 1822
4 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Nannopithex cf. filholi Chantre and Gaillard 1897
3 specimens
Mammalia - Cebochoeridae
Cebochoerus (Gervachoerus n. subgen.) cf. suillus Gervais 1859
3 specimens
Mammalia - Dichobunidae
Meniscodon cf. europaeum (Rutimeyer 1888)
1 specimen
Hyperdichobune sp. Stehlin 1910
1 specimen
Hyperdichobune langi (Rutimeyer 1891)
3 specimens
Mammalia - Amphimerycidae
Pseudamphimeryx cf. schlosseri Rutimeyer 1891
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Picardie Region County:Aisne Departement
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 3.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.1° North, 0.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:227 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Eocene - Middle Eocene
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Bartonian - Early/Lower Bartonian *Local age/stage:Auversien - Auversien
Key time interval:Bartonian Zone: Lissieu Level
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: The site is said to be stratified and not karstic.
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:ref. 8517 deals only with artiodactyles and primates
Metadata
Database number:31584
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-19 08:58:52 Last modified:2007-02-21 17:34:13
Access level:database members Released:2003-05-19 08:58:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8517.5% 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]