Mont-de-Marsan (Miocene of France)

Where: France (43.9° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• no age information is given by Flot (1895). Flot (1896) assigns a "Helvetien" (=Burdigalian) age, which is confirmed by Peyrot 1933.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dubalen

• Repository: Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux (for Nautilus dubaleni at least)

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57732: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.12.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus dubaleni n. sp." = Eutrephoceras dubaleni2
"Nautilus dubaleni n. sp." = Eutrephoceras dubaleni2 Peyrot 1932 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
"Squalodon grateloupi" = Squalodon grateloupii
"Squalodon grateloupi" = Squalodon grateloupii von Meyer 1843 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenula balaenopsis Van Beneden 1872 right whale
 Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Mesocetus aquitanicus1 Flot 1896 whale
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
"Halitherium fossile" = Metaxytherium medium
"Halitherium fossile" = Metaxytherium medium Desmarest 1822 dugong