Laure-Minervois: Bartonian, France
collected by M. Finestres 1919

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Atacisaurus glareae n. sp. Astre 1931
Ortega et al. 1996
nomen dubium belonging to Tomistominae
Type (anterior portion of mandible) - lost
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
Lophiaspis occitanicus Deperet 1910
mut. carcassense
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Aude
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 2.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 1.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from the late Lutetian or more probably from the early Barthonian; ‘Grès de Carcassonne’ (Carcassonne sandstones)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:M. Finestres Collection dates:1919
Metadata
Database number:78249
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-31 12:57:12 Last modified:2016-05-25 05:58:39
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-31 12:57:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26337. 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]

Secondary references:

59233 S. Jouve. 2016. A new basal tomistomine (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) from Issel (Middle Eocene; France): palaeobiogeography of basal tomistomines and palaeogeographic consequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:165-182 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
46532 F. Ortega, A. D. Buscalioni, and Z. Gasparini. 1996. Reinterpretation and new denomination of Atacisaurus crassiproratus (Middle Eocene; Issel, France) as cf. Iberosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Metasuchia). Geobios 29(3):353-364 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]