PBDB Collection

Prémontré: MP 10, France

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae

	Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879	Augé et al. 1997
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae

	? Discoglossidae indet. Günther 1859	Augé et al. 1997
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Leptodactylidae

	? Leptodactylidae indet. Stirton 1953	Augé et al. 1997
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Palaeobatrachidae

	Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865	Augé et al. 1997
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825	Augé et al. 1997

	cf. Triturus sp. Rafinesque 1815	Augé et al. 1997
Reptilia

	Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847	Augé et al. 1997

	Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921	Augé et al. 1997

	Asiatosuchus (cf. Asiatosuchus) depressifrons (Blainville 1855)	Augé et al. 1997

	Pristichampsus (cf. Pristichampsus) rollinati (Gray 1831)	Augé et al. 1997
	nomen dubium belonging to Eusuchia

	Coniophis sp. Marsh 1892	Augé et al. 1997	1 element
	nomen dubium belonging to Serpentes
	a single vertebra
Reptilia - Palaeophiidae

	? Palaeophis toliapicus Owen 1841	Augé et al. 1997
	a few, poorly preserved vertebrae, smaller than those attributed to P. typhaeus, but the only anatomical elements which would allow unquestionable identification of P. toliapicus, the prezygapophyses, are damaged in all specimens

	Palaeophis typhaeus Owen 1850	Augé et al. 1997
	vertebrae, abundant ("nombreuse")
Reptilia

	Alethinophidia indet. (Nopcsa 1923)	Augé et al. 1997
	vertebreae, reminiscent of both booids and anilioids

	Colubroidea indet. Oppel 1811	Augé et al. 1997
	some vertebrae of an "archaic" colubroid
Reptilia - Russellophiidae

	Russellophiidae indet. (Rage 1978)	Augé et al. 1997	2 elements
	original and current combination Russellopheidae
	two vertebrae, possibly belonging to two different taxa but not to R. tenuis

	Russellophis tenuis Rage 1975	Augé et al. 1997	1 element
	a single vertebra
Reptilia - Boidae

	Boidae indet. Gray 1825	Augé et al. 1997
	vertebrae and cranial elements of non-Erycine boids, differentiation of Boines and Pythonines (or perhaps members of a third, yet unnamed subfamily) is not possible with certainty

	Calamagras gallicus Rage 1977	Augé et al. 1997
	a few dorsal vertebrae
Reptilia - Tropidophiidae

	cf. Dunnophis sp. Hecht 1959	Augé et al. 1997
	vertebrae, larger and more robust than those of D. matronensis

	Dunnophis matronensis Rage 1973	Augé et al. 1997
	vertebae, quite abundant ("assez fréquent")
Reptilia - Cordylidae

	? Cordylidae indet. Gray 1837	Augé 2003

	Pseudolacerta sp. De Stefano 1903	Augé et al. 1997	4 specimens
	MNHN PMT 40, three incomplete left dentaries, one incomplete right dentary
	= Cordylidae sp. Gray 1837	Augé 2005
Reptilia - Scincidae

	Axonoscincus sabatieri n. gen., n. sp. Augé 2003	Augé 2003	10 specimens
	MNHN PMT 37 (holotype), right dentary; PMT 90-94, six left and four right dentaries; PMT 95-96, two posterior parts of maxillae, one anterior part of maxilla; PMT 38-39, one plus ?one premaxillae
Reptilia - Blanidae

	Amphisbaenidae indet. Gray 1865	Augé 2003
	= Blanosaurus primeocaenus Folie et al. 2013	Folie et al. 2013
	Four dentaries including MNHN PMT 99 and PMT 100 (left dentaries) and 24 vertebrae including MNHN PMT 101 and PMT 102 (two trunk vertebrae)
Reptilia

	Lacertoidea indet. Camp 1923	Augé 2003
Reptilia - Lacertidae

	Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831	Augé 2005	2 specimens
	MNHN PMT 36, maxilla; plus another anterior portion of maxilla from second individual

	Dormaalisaurus girardoti	Augé 2003	5 specimens
	[entered as Dormalisaurus girardoti]; MNHN PMT 17, right dentary; PMT 79-81, six left and three right incomplete dentaries; PMT 34, incomplete left maxilla

	Dormaalisaurus rossmanni	Augé 2003	4 specimens
	[entered as Dormalisaurus rossmanni]; MNHN PMT 33, left dentary; PMT 82-83, two right dentaries; PMT 18, part of posterior of right dentary

	Dormaalisaurus sp. Augé and Smith 2002	Augé 2003	10 specimens
	[entered as Dormalisaurus sp.]; MNHN PMT 84-86, two right and one left incomplete dentaries; PMT 35, incomplete left maxilla; PMT 13, incomplete right maxilla; PMT 87-89, five left and two right incomplete maxillae; PMT 15-16, two dorsal vertebrae
Reptilia - Eolacertidae

	Eolacerta cf. robusta Nöth 1940	Augé 2003	11 specimens
	MNHN PMT 8, part of posterior right dentary; PMT 9, incomplete left maxilla; PMT 10, incomplete left dentary; PMT 11, dorsal vertebra; PMT 19-25, 19 left and 11 right incomplete dentaries, incomplete maxillae (8 left, 10 right), four premaxillae, three parietals, two postfrontals, 42 dorsal vertebrae, 18 caudal vertebrae
Reptilia

	Platynota indet. Baur 1890	Augé 2003
Reptilia - Helodermatidae

	? Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837	Augé 2003

	Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837	Augé 2005	1 specimen
	?one dorsal vertebra
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Anguidae indet. Gray 1825	Augé 2003

	Anguinae indet. Gray 1825	Augé 2003

	cf. Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758	Augé 2003

	Anguini indet. Augé 2005	Augé 2005

	Placosauriops indet. Kuhn 1940	Augé 2003
Reptilia - Iguanidae

	Geiseltaliellus cf. longicaudus Kuhn 1944	Augé 2003
	MNHN PMT1, left dentary; PMT 26-27, two right dentaries; PMT 28, left dentary with portion of splenial; PMT 56-60, forty one left dentaries, thirty nine right dentaries; PMT 3, incomplete left maxilla; PMT 4, incomplete right maxilla; PMT 29, incomplete left maxilla; PMT 60-65, about thirty maxillae; PMT 30, 103, a few premaxillae; PMT 2, frontal; PMT 31, incomplete parietal; PMT 68-69, a few dorsal and caudal vertebrae
Reptilia - Agamidae

	Tinosaurus indet. (Marsh 1872)	Augé 2003	1 specimen
	= Tinosaurus europeocaenus Auge and Smith 1997	Augé 2005
	MNHN PMT12, incomplete maxilla
Reptilia - Gekkonidae

	Laonogekko lefevrei n. gen., n. sp. Augé 2003	Augé 2003	13 specimens
	MNHN PMT 5 (holotype), right maxilla; PMT 6, right dentary; PMT 70-74, five right dentaries and four left dentaries; PMT 75, incomplete left and right maxillae; PMT 32, frontal; PMT 7, incomplete frontal; PMT 76-78, four dorsal vertebrae, one caudal
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae

	Neochelys sp. Bergounioux 1954	Augé et al. 1997
	= Neochelys eocaenica de Stefano 1902	Lapparent de Broin 2003
	original and current combination Cistudo eocaenica
Reptilia - Testudines

	Allaeochelys sp. Noulet 1867	Augé et al. 1997

	Testudinoidea indet. Gray 1825	Hervet 2004

	Owenemys sp. Hervet 2004	Hervet 2004
	MNHN PMT 110
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Hadrianus sp. sensu lato Cope 1872	Augé et al. 1997
	= Pelorochelon cf. eocaenica Hummel 1935	Pérez-García et al. 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae

	Palaeochelys sp. sensu lato Meyer 1847	Augé et al. 1997
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Eurycephalochelys (aff. Eurycephalochelys) vittatus (Pomel 1847)	Augé et al. 1997
	recombined as Axestemys vittata

	Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809	Augé et al. 1997
Mammalia - Dichobunidae

	Eurodexeinae indet. Erfurt and Sudre 1996	Sudre and Erfurt 1996
	SLP-29-PE 1267, 9, 2122 and SLP-29-PR 1974

	Eurodexis russelli n. sp. Sudre and Erfurt 1996	Sudre and Erfurt 1996
	SLP-29-PE 1859 - type
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Diacodexis cf. varleti Sudre 1983	Sudre and Erfurt 1996
	SLP-29-PE 1503
Mammalia - Pantolestidae

	Pantolestidae indet. Cope 1884	Smith 2001
	SLP-29-PE-1029

	cf. Pantolestes sp. Cope 1872	Smith 2001
	SLP-29-PE-1258, 595, 837, 1500 and 114

	Pantolestes sabatieri n. sp. Smith 2001	Smith 2001
	SLP-Z-PR-206 - type

	cf. Premontrelestes sp. Smith 2001	Smith 2001
	SLP-29-PE-1516, 66, 1233, 1865 and 451

	Premontrelestes duchaussoisi n. gen., n. sp. Smith 2001	Smith 2001
	PRE-L-746 - holotype

	Palaeosinopa sp. Matthew 1901	Smith 2001
	SLP-29-PE-1053
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Nannopithex zuccolae Godinot et al. 1992	Smith and Smith 2003
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

	Arcius lapparenti (Russell et al. 1967)	López-Torres and Silcox 2018
	original and current combination Phenacolemur lapparenti
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

	Premontreia degremonti n. gen., n. sp. Cappetta 1992		150 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	France	State/province:	Picardie	County:	Aisne
Coordinates:	49.5° North, 3.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	45.0° North, 0.7° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
Stage:	Ypresian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:	MP 10
Age range of interval:	56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: "La position du niveau à vertébrés dans la série sédimentaire de Prémontré, ainsi que les indications données par quelques mammifères, avaient conduit Dégremont et al. (1985) à proposer un âge Cuisien terminal pour cette faune de Prémontré. Par la suite, Godinot (1987) a placé le gisement dans le niveau-standard MP 10, dont Grauves est la localité de référence, de l'échelle de niveaux de références du Paléogène européen basée sur les mammifères (Schmidt-Kittler, 1987). Ce niveau MP 10 s'accorde avec un âge Cuisien terminal." [The position of the vertebrate-bearing horizon within the sedimentary succession of Prémontré, as well as data provided by some mammal taxa, led Dégremont et al. (1985) to propose a latest Cuisian [i.e. latest Ypresian, Early Eocene; TL] age for this Prémontré fauna. Subsequently, Godinot (1987) placed the site in the standard Paleogene mammal zone MP 10 (Schmidt-Kittler, 1987), of which Grauve is the type locality. The MP 10 interval corresponds to a latest Cuisian age.] (Augé et al., 1997)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "Les fossiles proviennent d'un niveau sableux qui a livré des poissons, des amphibiens, des reptiles, des oiseaux et des mammifères. Le niveau fossilifère est surmonté, sans discordance apparente, par des sables glauconieux contenant des mollusques de la transgression lutétienne." [The fossils occur in a sandy horizon that provided fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The fossiliferous horizon is overlain, apparently conformably, by glauconitic sands which contain molluscs of the Lutetian transgression.] (Augé et al., 1997)
Environment:	marginal marine indet.	Tectonic setting:	cratonic basin

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

general faunal/floral analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Anizy-Le-Château
Database number:	68440
Authorizer:	M. Uhen, J. Head, D. Nicholson, P. Barrett, J. Mueller, C. Bell, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Uhen, C. Bell, T. Cleary, P. Mannion, J. Head, D. Nicholson, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:	T. Liebrecht	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2007-01-22 09:13:10	Last modified:	2015-04-21 18:19:40
Access level:	the public	Released:	2007-01-22 09:13:10
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

47934.

H. Cappetta. 1992. Carcharhiniformes nouveaux (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) de l'Ypresien du Bassin de Paris. Geobios 25(2):639-646 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

35618		M. Augé. 2003. La faune de Lacertilia (Reptilia, Squamata) de l’Éocène inférieur de Prémontré (Bassin de Paris, France). Geodiversitas 25(3):539-574 [J. Head/J. Head]
43531		M. Augé, S. Duffaud, F. Lapparent Broin, J.-C. Rage, and D. Vasse. 1997. Les amphibiens et les reptiles de Prémontré (Cuisien, Bassin parisien): une herpétofaune de référence pour l'Eocène inférieur. Géologie de la France 1:23-33 [C. Bell/C. Bell]
59290		M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
54400		A. Folie, R. Smith, and T. Smith. 2013. New amphisbaenian lizards from the Early Paleogene of Europe and their implications for the early evolution of modern amphisbaenians. Geologica Belgica 16(4):227-235 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
58591		S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]
58692		F. Lapparent de Broin. 2003. Neochelys sp. (Chelonii, Erymnochelyinae), from Silveirinha, early Eocene, Portugal. Ciencias da Terra (UNL) 15:117-132 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
66265		S. López-Torres and M. T. Silcox. 2018. The European Paromomyidae (Primates, Mammalia): taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeographic implications. Journal of Paleontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59713		A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega, and E. Jimenez Fuentes. 2016. Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:648-675 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]
61252		R. Smith. 2001. Les pantolestides (Mammalia, Pantolesta) de l'Eocene inferieur de Premontre (Aisne, France). Palaeovertebrata 30(1-2):11-35 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
19707	5% 57680	T. Smith and R. Smith. 2003. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:513-520 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
61257		J. Sudre and J. Erfurt. 1996. Les artiodactyles du gisement yprésien terminal de Premontre (Aisne, France). Palaeovertebrata 25(2-4):391-414 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]