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Afrodon gheerbranti De Bast, Sigé & Smith, 2012

Contributors: edebast
IRSNB M 1980; Paleocene; Hainin; Belgium

IRSNB M 1980 (=N2-66)

IG: 30562      Reg.: -

Age:
Danian or Selandian, Early Palaeocene
Locality: Hainin, Mons Basin, Belgium.
Description: Right calcaneum

UUID Number: https://darwin.naturalsciences.be/darwin/search/view/uuid/6fcdc769-63c7-460e-998c-5e176d8b3636

Publication:
- Smith, T., Sigé, B. and De Bast, E. 2010. Euarchontan affinity for the Palaeocene Afro-European adapisoriculid mammals and their origin in the late Cretaceous Deccan Traps of India. Naturwissenschaften 97:417-422 (Fig. 1C).
- De Bast E. & Smith T., 2017. The oldest Cenozoic reference mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the early Palaeocene Hainin fauna (Belgium) in mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Palaeocene. Journal of Systematic Paleontology, T.15(9), pp.741-758 (Fig. 16A).

Source 3D : 

https://www.morphosource.org/Detail/SpecimenDetail/Show/specimen_id/1651

  • M1980 dorsal

    Right calcaneum, dorsal view. Eric De Bast requested the picture, Julien Cillis made the picture in 2008. Specimen illustrated in Smith et al., 2010
    M1980 dorsal
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  • M1980 plantar

    Right calcaneum, plantar view. Eric De Bast requested the picture, Julien Cillis made the picture in 2008. Specimen illustrated in Smith et al., 2010
    M1980 plantar
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