Mont-de-Marsan: Burdigalian, France
collected by Dubalen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plesiocetus dubius (Van Beneden 1872)
    = Mysticeti indet.
Bisconti and Bosselaers 2021
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita jouanneti
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus dubaleni n. sp. Peyrot 1932
Peyrot 1933
recombined as Eutrephoceras dubaleni
Mammalia - Cetacea
Zeuglodon cetoides Owen 1839
    = Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
Uhen 2500
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Mesocetus aquitanicus Flot 1896
Flot 1896
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenula balaenopsis (Van Beneden 1872)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodon grateloupi (von Meyer 1843)
original and current combination Squalodon grateloupii
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Halitherium fossile (Holl 1829)
synonym of Metaxytherium medium
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 0.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 2.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: no age information is given by Flot (1895). Flot (1896) assigns a "Helvetien" (=Burdigalian) age, which is confirmed by Peyrot 1933.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Dubalen
Collection method comments: Repository: Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux (for Nautilus dubaleni at least)
Metadata
Database number:57732
Authorizer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-12-20 07:38:27 Last modified:2020-06-05 15:41:08
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-20 07:38:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28853. 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]

Secondary references:

77114 M. Bisconti and M. Bosselaers. 2021. On Plesiocetus Van Beneden, 1859 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127(2):231-274 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28855 L. Flot. 1896. Not sure les Cetaces fossiles de l Aquitaine. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 24(3):270-282 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
59706 A. Peyrot. 1933. Conchologie Néogénique de l'Aquitaine, Tome VI, Gastropodes (Suite). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 85:5-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]