Where: France (44.4° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boningen mammal zone, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Late Oligocene, mammalian Boningen Biozone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Primary reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré. 1987. The owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Phosphorites du Quercy (France): Systematics, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Documents des laboratories des géologie, Lyon 99:89-135 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220584: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.06.2021

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