Avenay: Ypresian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
5 specimens
MNHN.Av-4770; MNHN.Av-841-Ph; BMNH.M51708; MNHN.Av-65519; MNHN.Av-(61)14685
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Marne
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 4.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 10.8° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lignites de Soissonais
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: late Sparnacian, NP12, MP8+9 (Smith & Smith, 2003)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:220833
Authorizer:G. Lloyd Enterer:G. Lloyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-06-17 12:09:35 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-06-17 12:09:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

77184. J. J. Hooker. 1994. The beginning of the equoid radiation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:29-63 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]