Where: Aude, France (43.4° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sables du Castrais Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 38.0 Ma)

• Within the Sables du Castrais Formation at Issel, several fossiliferous levels have produced vertebrate remains with different ages spanning the upper Lutetian–upper Bartonian interval (Marandat, 1987). Contrary to previous propositions of a Bartonian age, Godinot et al. (2018) suggested that the locality of Issel could be either Ypresian–Lutetian or Lutetian, and view the holotype mandible of Dentaneosuchus crassiproratus from Issel as coming from a level situated below the base of the Lutetian (Martin et al. 2023)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; muddy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr Henri de Sévérac in 1873

Primary reference: M. Richard. 1946. Contribution a l'étude du basin d'Aquitaine, Les Gisements de Mammiferes Tertiares. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Serie 24(52):1-380 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78233: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.01.2008, edited by Philip Mannion, Patricia Holroyd and David Nicholson

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