Try (Marne) spoil heap, Frankreich


Fundort: Try (Marne) spoil heap, Frankreich, Marne, Frankreich
Taxon: Cantius eppsi aus der Familie Notharctidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, The unit is divisible into an upper part whose base is conglomeratic ("Conglomerat a Coryphodon") and a lower part with concretionary limestone and "Paludina" aspersa. The lower part may be equivalent to the Calcaire de Rilly, which overlies the Sables de Berru and like them belongs to the Sphaerochara edda charophyte zone (Riveline 1984 : 134). Except for the Coryphodon, it is not known in which level or levels the mammals occur, as they were found in quarry spoil (Louis et al. 1983).
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 48,6 und 59,2 Millionen Jahre aus der Marnes de Dormans Formation in Frankreich
Geologie, Sratigraphie Thanetian, Ypresian / Thanetian / Marnes de Dormans
Koordinaten: 49° 4 ' 48 '' N, 3° 28 ' 24 '' O

Literatur

J. J. Hooker 1994, A new species of Platychoerops (Plesiadapiformes, Mammalia) from the latest Palaeocene of the Paris, London and Belgian Basins. Geobios. 27:3, p. 343 - 352

Systematik