Mas de Got A (Oligocene of France)

Also known as Quercy Phosphorites

Where: Quercy, France (44.5° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 1.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MP 22 mammal zone, MP 22 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Mas de Got is of Early Oligocene age, Villebramar level.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179141: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 02.06.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Pseudoltinomys major2, Issiodoromys medius2
Pseudoltinomys major2 Vianey-Liaud 1976 rodent
Issiodoromys medius2 Vianey-Liaud 1976 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Palaeosciurus goti2
Palaeosciurus goti2 Vianey-Liaud 1974 squirrel
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguini indet.
Anguini indet. Augé 2005 squamates
 Squamata - Necrosauridae
Necrosaurus sp.
Necrosaurus sp. Filhol 1876 squamates
incomplete parietal, nine dorsal vertebrae, seven caudal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacerta filholi
Lacerta filholi Augé 1988 squamates
right dentary, three fragmentary left dentaries
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coluber cadurci n. sp.1
Coluber cadurci n. sp.1 Rage 1974 racer
MGT 3505 (holotype), several dorsal and caudal vertebrae
1Rage 1974; 2Vianey-Liaud and Schmid 2009