Mormont (Eocene of Switzerland)

Where: Canton Vaud, Switzerland (46.7° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 2.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Costeur and M. Schneider. 2011. Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel. Carnets de GĂ©ologie - Notebooks on Geology [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183105: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 01.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus priscus n. sp. Revilliod 1920 horseshoe bat
Q.H.200 Fragment of rostrum, Q.H.88 Fragment of mandible, Q.H.228 Fragment of rostrum, Q.P.747 Fragment of mandible
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Paradoxonycteris soricodon n. sp. Revilliod 1919 placental
Mt.994 Right maxilla with P4-M3