Romainville, marnes blanches supragypseuses, MP20 (Eocene of France)

Also known as Protoazin-type locality

Where: Ile-de-France, France (48.9° N, 2.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 1.5° W)

When: MP20 mammal zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: G. Mayr and V. L. De Pietri. 2014. Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic". Naturwissenschaften 101:143-148 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209402: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 02.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Opisthocomiformes - Opisthocomidae
Protoazin parisiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Protoazin parisiensis n. gen. n. sp. Mayr and De Pietri 2014 bird
NMB PG.70