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