Phosphorites du Quercy (old collections - early Oligocene) (Oligocene of France)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France (44.3° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quercy Phosphorites Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• General collection for specimens from the early Oligocene part of the Phosphorites du Quercy with no specific locality or age data, particularly from older museum collections.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Peigné and M. Brunet. 2001. Une nouvelle espèce du genre Eusmilus (Carnivora: Nimravidae) de l'Oligocène (MP 22) d'Europe. Geobios 34(6):657-672 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183670: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 12.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
"Machairodus bidentatus n. sp." = Hoplophoneus bidentatus, Eofelis edwardsii n. gen. n. sp.
"Machairodus bidentatus n. sp." = Hoplophoneus bidentatus Filhol 1872 false sabre-tooth
MNHN QU 9475 - type
Eofelis edwardsii n. gen. n. sp. Filhol 1872 false sabre-tooth
MNHN-QU 9539 - holotype