Also known as les Buissonneaux; Maine-et-Loire

Where: France (47.5° N, 0.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 1.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: MN5 mammal zone, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• age after Ginsburg & Janvier 1999

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: L. Ginsburg and M. Bonneau. 1995. La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France). Bulletin de Musee national Histoire naturell 4(2-4):313-328 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 148395: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.07.2013, edited by Grace Varnham

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