Also known as La Pointue
Where: France (49.9° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MP7 mammal zone, Calcaire d’Ailly Member (Mortemer Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Unit 2 of the Calcaire d’Ailly Member, situated about 1.5m above the onset of
•the Paleocene–Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion (CIE)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: T. Smith, C. Dupuis, A. Folie, F. Quesnel, J.-Y. Storme, P. Iacumin, J. Riveline, P. Missiaen, S. Ladevèze and J. Yans. 2011. A new terrestrial vertebrate site just after the Paleocene–Eocene boundary in the Mortemer Formation of Upper Normandy, France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 10:11-20 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 182667: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
cf. Sphaerium sp. Scopoli 1777 fingernail clam | |
Amphibia | |
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog | |
cf. Salamandra sp. Laurenti 1768 salamander | |
Mammalia | |
Ischyromyidae indet. Alston 1876 rodent | |
Arcius zbyszewskii Estravís 2000 primate | |
Macrocranion vandebroeki Quinet 1964 elephant shrew | |
Peradectes "sp. 1" Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial
Peradectes "sp. 2" Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial | |
Reptilia | |
Necrosauridae indet. Hoffstetter 1943 squamates | |
Scincomorpha indet. Camp 1923 squamates | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Thaumaturus sp. Reuss 1844 |