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 level zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents
Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. de 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/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12854: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 20.12.2001, edited by Philip Mannion and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Anoplotherium sp. Cuvier 1804 even-toed ungulate | |
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Tapirulus hyracinus Gervais 1850 even-toed ungulate | |
Oxacron courtoisi Gervais 1848 even-toed ungulate | |
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate | |
Theridomyidae "nov. gen. nov. sp.2" Alston 1876 rodent
Pseudoltinomys cf. cuvieri rodent | |
Adapis parisiensis Blainville 1841 primate | |
Reptilia | |
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Boidae "Boidae C" Gray 1825 boa
Boidae "Boidae B" Gray 1825 boa | |
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Plesiolacerta sp.2 Hoffstetter 1942 squamates USTL ROS2 267, dorsal vertebra not attrib. to P. lydekkeri
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Necrosaurus sp. Filhol 1876 squamates | |
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