Mas de Gaston (Oligocene of France)

Also known as Quercy Phosporites

Where: Quercy, France (44.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 23 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: C. Blondel. 1997. Les ruminants de Pech Desse et de Pech du Fraysse (Quercy; MP28); évolution des ruminants de l'oligocène d'Europe. Geobios 30(4):573-591 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183378: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.12.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Schizotherium priscum Gervais 1876 chalicothere
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomeryx chalaniati Pomel 1853 ruminant