Fournès
Basic information
Sample name: Fournès

Reference: B. Marandat. 1991. Mammifères de l'Ilerdian moyen (Eocène inférieur) des Corbières et du Minervois (Bas-Languedoc, France). Systématique, Biostratigraphie, Corrélations. Palaeovertebrata 20(2-3):55-145 [ER 4434]
Geography
Country: France

Coordinate: 43.345° N, 2.692° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Early Eocene

Zone: MP7

Geography comments: shown in Fig. 1 as between Caunes (meaning Caunes-Minervois) and Minerve north of the Aude River: this is apparently close to the hamlet of Fauzan (coordinate estimated from its position)
correlated with Dormaal and therefore earliest Eocene or within MP7, although possibly as young as MP8+9: see also Fig. 7: younger than Fordones

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Environment
Lithology: limestone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: Fig. 2 illustrates the local section: the fossils are from a "calcaire lacustre à moules internes de Romanella"

Methods
Life forms: bats, primates, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 36 specimens

Museum: Université des Sciences et Techniques due Languedoc

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the carbonate rock samples were prepared with acid and not screenwashed

Metadata
Sample no: 4721

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2025-12-16 03:36:10

Modified: 2025-12-16 03:36:10

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
4 singletons
total count 36
geometric series index: 29.1
Fisher's α: 7.304
geometric series k: 0.8254
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8667
Shannon's H: 2.3082
Good's u: 0.8935
Register
†Peratherium cf. matronense (herpetotheriid)3
Peradectes sp. is also listed in a table but not described
†Peratherium cf. monspeliense (herpetotheriid)2
plus 2 GAS
†Amphiperatherium cf. maximum (herpetotheriid)1
Didelphodus sp. 1
cf.
Didelphodontinae indet.1
?
Pontifactor sp. 3
cf.
†Ilerdoryctes sigei (cimolestid)4
Hyracolestes sp. 2
cf.
Eochiroptera indet.3
†Arcius cf. fuscus (plesiadapiform)10
†Donrussellia cf. gallica (notharctid)1
Ischyromyidae indet.3
Perissodactyla indet.2
cf. Cymbalophus hookeri or Propachynolophus