Also known as 20 km south of Reims

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.2° N, 4.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.2° N, 11.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• MP6

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Pierre Louis; reposited in the MNHN

• Discovered by M. Laurain during the digging of a ditch for a gas pipeline, and was reported by Laurain et al. (1985) and Laurain and Meyer (1986)

Primary reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré and E. Bourdon. 2016. The Gastornis (Aves, Gastornithidae) from the Late Paleocene of Louvois (Marne, France). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 135:327-341 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180791: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.08.2016

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