Cregols, Canton de St-Gery, Lot (Pliocene to of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Isolated find of a tooth, could be Late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene (based on time range of P. brevirostris).

Environment/lithology: phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Material held in the Museum de Bordeaux.

Primary reference: E. Harle and H.G. Stehlin. 1909. Une nouvelle faune de Mammiferes des Phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin - Societe Geologique de France 9(4):39-52 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49306: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 13.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena
1 upper P3.