Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (44.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Escamps zone, Priabonian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Amphidozotherium cayluxi and Saturninia gracilis specimens are in the MNHN collections.

Primary reference: J.-Y. Crochet, J.-L. Hartenberger, J.-C. Rage, J.A. Remy, B. Sige, J. Sudre, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1981. Les nouvelles faunes de vertebres anterieurs a la "Grande Coupure" decouvertes dans les phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 3(3):245-266 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12843: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Robin Whatley