Ligueux (Oligocene of France)
Where: Aquitaine Region, France (44.8° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 3.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Lower Stampien
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Astre. 1954. Gisements les plus orientaux d'Halitherium dans le Stampien marin du Bordelais. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 89(3-4):225-227 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35971: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• The invertebrate and shark fauna is mentioned but not described
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| Bivalvia | |
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Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch | |
| Mammalia | |
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Halitherium sp. Kaup 1838 dugong | |