Sample name: Erquelinnes

Reference: P. Missiaen, F. Quesnel, C. Dupuis, J.-Y. Storme, and T. Smith. 2013. The earliest Eocene mammal fauna of the Erquelinnes Sand Member near the French-Belgian border. Geologica Belgica 16(4):262-273 [ER 3956]

Lithology: conglomerate

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: from "fluvial" deposits in "a series of sand quarries" that were "deposited rapidly in channels of braided rivers"
the mammals are almost all from "lenticular deposits of the basal gravel bed" in the member, but the perissodactyl Cymbalophus cuniculus was found in the overlying "cross-bedded sands"

Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 36 specimens

Years: 1880, 1891, 1922, 1924, 1958

Sampling comments: a series of papers from 1909 through 1929 listed the fauna and Teilhard de Chardin (1927) illustrated the specimens
"most of the specimens were found during the 1922 fieldwork supervised by Dollo"
"the historic Erquelinnes quarries" are "no longer exposed anywhere", explaining why no new specimens are discussed
the single specimen of Cymbalophus cuniculus is omitted here because it is not from the same bed as the rest of the fauna

Sample number: 4365

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-09-06 16:45:05

Modified: 2023-09-06 06:45:05