Where: Auvergne, France (46.1° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Thanetian according to the geochronological absolute age (ca. 56 Ma) and the polarity chron
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García. 2012. Berruchelus russelli, gen. et sp. nov., a paracryptodiran turtle from the Cenozoic of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):545-556 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137805: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.12.2012, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
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Berruchelus russelli Pérez-García 2012 turtle FSL 532 267 (posterior region of a shell that preserves the three posterior-most neurals, the suprapygals, the pygal, the last three pairs of costals, and the last four peripherals on the left side)
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| Mammalia | |
Plesiadapis insignis n. sp.
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