Also known as Quercy Phosphorites

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Paléontologie de l’Université de Montpellier (UM2) in 2000

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. Vianey-Liaud and B. Schmid. 2009. Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia). Geodiversitas 31(4):909-941 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183452: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.12.2016

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