Where: Puy-de-Dôme, France (45.7° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 0.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: MP 28/29 mammal zone, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Croizet; reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178464: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 03.05.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudo lemanensis turtle | |
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