ammonites
Escamps B (Eocene of France)

Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (44.4° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Escamps zone, MP 19 (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

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

•MP 19 according to Mayr and Mourer-Chauviré 2000

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. d.e. Bonis, J.-Y. Crochet, J.C. Rage, B. Sige, J. Sudre and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1973. Nouvelles faunes de vertebres oligocenes des phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (174)105-113 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12844: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001