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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"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
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