French Paleogene vulture: Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda - Cathartidae
Diatropornis ellioti
Emslie 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 2.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:13324
Authorizer:J. Hunter Enterer:J. Hunter
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-02-20 14:49:11 Last modified:2006-08-14 01:24:30
Access level:the public Released:2002-02-20 14:49:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6043. A. Milne-Edwards. 1892. Sur les oiseaux fossiles des dépôts éocènes du phosphate de chaux du sud de la France. Second Congrès ornithologique international, Budapest II Partie scientif (1891) 60-80 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]

Secondary references:

44165% 13020S. D. Emslie. 1988. An early condor-like vulture from North America. The Auk 105(3):529-535 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]