Also known as Quercy, MP 22

Where: Midi-Pyrenées, France (44.4° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 22 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; poorly lithified, red mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

• The average size of the fossils recovered from the "déblais" is smaller than that of the material from the original cave fills, since the largest pieces have been collected systematically during the active period of the phosphate mine in the late 19th century.

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 2009-2012

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve

• "Fossils were collected directly from the sediment and after screen washing" (Rage & Augé, 2015).

•"The material is curated in the Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution (ISEM), Université de Montpellier 2, France" (Rage & Augé, 2015).

Primary reference: J.-C. Rage and M. Augé. 2015. Valbro: A new site of vertebrates from the early Oligocene (MP 22) of France (Quercy). III - Amphibians and squamates. Annales de Paléontologie 101(1):29-41 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167537: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 20.03.2015, edited by Philip Mannion and Terri Cleary

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