Also known as Luberon

Where: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France (44.0° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 2.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vachères limestones Formation, MP 24 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "Vachères limestones”, Rupelian strata, biozone MP24, 33–28.25 Ma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by J. Bouhanna; reposited in the SMF

• SMF collection

Primary reference: G. Mayr. 2008. Phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic avian taxon Zygodactylus based on new material from the early Oligocene of France. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(3):333-344 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84461: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.10.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

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