Early Eocene birds from La Borie, southern France

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Authors: Bourdon, Estelle, Mourer-Chauvire, Cécile, Laurent, Yves
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Aves; Eocene; France; Galligeranoides; Gastornis; Geranoididae; palaeobiogeography; Ypresian; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Giganteus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://univ-lyon1.hal.science/hal-02331997; https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00083.2014

The early Eocene locality of La Borie is located in the village of Saint-Papoul, in southern France. These Eocene fluvio-lacustrine clay deposits have yielded numerous vertebrate remains. Mammalian taxa found in the fossiliferous levels indicate an age near the reference level MP 8-9, which correspo...