Where: Midi-Pyrénées, France (44.5° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 1.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• "late Eocene in age, with the possibility of an early Oligocene age not completely ruled out"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

• collection is in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel

Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1975. A new genus of Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the late Eocene of southern France, and its significance for the origin of higher primates. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(15):163-170 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87912: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.03.2009

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