Also known as "Mont Ceindre"

Where: Rhône-Alpes, France (45.8° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orleanian to Orleanian (20.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• lower/middle Miocene fissure fill in Jurassic carbonates

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Mein, among others; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Some material is also housed in the Centre des Sciences de La Terre, Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon (FSL).

•Note: originally entered total specimen number of 1407 has been removed since specimen numbers of individual taxa are given in the list. (TL)

Primary reference: M. Ivanov. 2000. Snakes of the lower/middle Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (Rhône, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids. Geodiversitas 22(4):559-588 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26723: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 25.10.2002, edited by Susanna Kümmell, Mark Uhen, Patricia Holroyd, Grace Varnham and Torsten Liebrecht

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