Ay (Eocene of France)

Also known as Agéien; Agèen

Where: Marne, France (49.1° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MP10 mammal zone, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• "Agèen Lemoine. Sparnacien plus Cuisien?"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lemoine; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181633: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 24.09.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Palaeotrionyx vittatus" = Axestemys vittata, Trionyx sp.
"Palaeotrionyx vittatus" = Axestemys vittata Pomel 1847 softshell turtle
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Allaeochelys sp. Noulet 1867 turtle
Mammalia
 Sparassodonta -
Protoproviverra palaeonictides n. gen. n. sp. Lemoine 1880 metatherian
MNHN.F.AL5155 - holotype