Where: Hérault, France (43.3° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MP 8–9 mammal zone, Grès d'Assignan Formation (Carcassonne Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• It comes from the Minervois part of the continental Molasse of the Carcassonne series, which includes the Calcaire de Ventenac Fm. (Early Ypresian), the Grès d’Assignan Fm. (lower part of the Late Ypresian), the Calcaire d’Agel Fm. (Late Ypresian), and the Grèsd’Aigne Fm. (Latest Ypresian–Early Lutetian).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, coarse-grained, red, yellow sandstone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: A. Pérez-García and F. Lapparent de Broin. 2013. A new species of Neochelys (Chelonii, Podocnemididae) from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of the South of France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 12:269-277 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170531: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 23.06.2015

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