Also known as Savigne-sur-Lathan, Savigne sur Lathan

Where: Region Centre, France (47.5° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN5 zone, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• The fossiliferous level is between the limestone of the Anjou Formation (Ludian) et the marine deposits of the Falun; Niveau argilo-sableux (sand and clay level)

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•age after Ginsburg and Janvier 1999

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified sandstone and brown, green, white claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. Collier and J. Huin. 1979. Decouverte d'un gisement d'age Burdigalien inferieur dans des sables sous-jacents aux Faluns de Touraine. Etude de la faune de rongeurs et interet biostratigraphique . Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, serie D 289:249-252 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35441: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 15.12.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

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