Where: Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees region, France (44.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 1.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: MP 17 mammal zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• European Mammal Zone ('Niveau Repère') based on rodents. Euzet
Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. Mourer-Chauvire. 1992. Une nouvelle famille de perroquets (Aves: Psittaciformes) dans l'Éocène Supérieur des phosphorites du Quercy, France. Geobios 14:169-177 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206820: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 04.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Aves | |
Quercypsitta sudrei n. gen. n. sp., Quercypsitta ivani n. gen. n. sp.
Quercypsitta sudrei n. gen. n. sp. Mourer-Chauvire 1992 bird USTL BFI 1679; BFI 1685; BFI 1710; BFI 1741; BFI 1901-1926; BFI 1948
| |