Where: France (48.8° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 8+9 zone, Vaugirard Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Argile plastique de Vaugirard"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1897; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: F. Solé, M. Godinot, Y. Laurent, A. Galoyer, and T. Smith. 2018. The European Mesonychid Mammals: Phylogeny, Ecology, Biogeography, and Biochronology. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 25:339-379 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197267: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.10.2018

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