Cournon: MP 28, France
collected by Croizet

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Dracaenosaurus croizeti n. sp. Gervais 1848
4 specimens
MNHN COR3 (holotype), mandible; MNHN COR 4, 5, and 6, two crushed skulls and a jaw with some elements of the palate
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon leptorhynchus n. gen., n. sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Peigné et al. 2014
FSL 70000
Mammalia - Carnivora - Palaeogalidae
Palaeogale sectoria (Gervais 1848)
Peigné et al. 2014
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ronzotherium romani
Ménouret et al. 2015
Mammalia
Prodremotherium elongatum Filhol 1877
Mennecart and Métais 2015
Mammalia - Talpidae
Paratalpa micheli Lavocat 1951
Ziegler 2012
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon quercyi Vianey-Liaud 1972
Vianey-Liaud 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Toeniodus sp. Pomel 1853
Kälin 2013
Theridomys lembronicus Bravard 1852
Kälin 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Puy-de-Dôme
Coordinates: 45.7° North, 3.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.5° North, 0.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:MP 28 Mammal zone: MP 28
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Late Oli, MP 28, Pech du Fraysse level
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:Croizet
Metadata
Also known as:Cournon-d'Auvergne
Database number:179177
Authorizer:P. Barrett, P. Mannion Enterer:T. Cleary, P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-06-03 07:45:53 Last modified:2016-06-03 07:45:53
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-03 07:45:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

61205 D. Kälin. 2013. A new Oligocene (MP 24) mammal fauna (Dürrenberg, Canton Jura, NW Switzerland) from the eastern slope of the ‘‘Rauracian depression’’. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 106:207-218 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61473 B. Mennecart and G. Métais. 2015. Mosaicomeryx gen. nov., a ruminant mammal from the Oligocene of Europe and the significance of ‘gelocids’. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(7):581-600 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
65807 B. Ménouret, J.-J. Châteauneuf, D. Nury and S. Peigné. 2015. Aubenas-les-Alpes, a forgotten Oligocene mammalian site in Provence (S-E France). Part I – Carnivora, Perissodactyla and Microflora. Annales de Paléontologie 101:241-250 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
54680 S. Peigné, M. Vianey-Liaud, T. Pélissié and B. Sigé. 2014. Valbro : un nouveau site à vertébrés de l’Oligocène inférieur (MP22) de France (Quercy). I – Contexte géologique ; Mammalia : Rodentia, Hyaenodontida, Carnivora [Valbro: A new site of vertebrates from the early Oligocene (MP22) of France (Quercy). I – Geological context; Mammalia: Rodentia, Hyaenodontida, Carnivora]. Annales de Paléontologie 100(1):1-45 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/P. Mannion]
61558 M. Vianey-Liaud. 1972. Contribution à l'étude des Cricétidés oligocènes d'Europe occidentale. Palaeovertebrata 5:1-44 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62503 R. Ziegler. 2012. Moles (Talpidae, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene karstic fissure fillings in South Germany. Geobios 45:501-513 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]