Also known as Quercy Phosphorite, Phospherites du Quercy

Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (44.3° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ronzon Level zone, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; phosphorite and concretionary, red, yellow claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• Geze (1938) mentioned the first occurrence from the site but he did not continue his excavations. Intense prospecting was made by Lange (1970), who gave the first substantial taxonomic list.

•Darbonetus aubrelongensis specimens are in the collection of the Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vértébres de l'Université Paris VI.

Primary reference: B. Geze. 1938. Contribution a la connaissance des phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 5(8):123-146 [E. Fara/E. Fara/E. Fara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 31583: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 19.05.2003, edited by Robin Whatley, Mark Uhen, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Terri Cleary, Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion

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