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: MP 17 mammal zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents. Euzet
Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Louis and J. Sudre. 1975. Nouvelles donnees sur les primates de l'Eocene superieur europeen. Colloque international CNRS, Problemes actuels de paleontologie - evolution des vertebres (218)805-828 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12853: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Terri Cleary and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Adapis magnus" = Leptadapis magnus4
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Necrolemur antiquus Filhol 1873 tarsier | |
Tapirulus perrierensis n. sp.4
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Plesiolacerta lydekkeri2 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates four dentaries, two juvenile left dentaries, three dorsal vertebrae, seven caudal vertebrae
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Eurheloderma gallicum2 Hoffstetter 1957 squamates MNHN QU 17737, two dorsal vertebrae; USTL BFI 1874, sacral vertebra
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Placosaurus sp.2 Gervais 1852 squamates twenty dorsal vertebrae, some caudal vertebrae, fifty osteoderms
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