Prajous: Late/Upper Eocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Cercamonius brachyrhynchus n. gen., n. sp.
(Stehlin 1912)
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Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 1.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 1.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "late Eocene in age, with the possibility of an early Oligocene age not completely ruled out" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphorite |
| Lithology description: "Quercy phosphorite deposits" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMB |
| Collection method comments: collection is in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 87912 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-27 20:08:59 | Last modified: | 2009-03-27 22:08:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-27 20:08:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29555. | P. D. Gingerich. 1975. A new genus of Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the late Eocene of southern France, and its significance for the origin of higher primates. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(15):163-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |