Also known as Ampujuan, Simorre

Where: Midi-Pyrenees Region, France (43.5° N, 0.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 41.4° N, 2.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• The 3 levels recognised by Crouzel (1957) at Simorre correspond to 3 major detritic inputs

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Ginsburg and P. Tassy. 1977. Les nouveaux gisements a Mastodontes du Vindobonien moyen de Simorre (Gers). Comptes Rendus sommaires de la Societe geologique de France 1:24-26 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31775: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 25.05.2003

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