Where: Île-de-France, France (48.8° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MP8+9 zone, Vaugirard Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• from the "Conglomérat de Meudon (at the base of the Argile Plastique)" (Gingerich 1976)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1859. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés dont on Trouve les Ossements Enfouis dans le Sol de la France et sur leur Comparaison aves les Espèces Propres aux Autres Régions du Globe (Deuxième Edition) [French Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Vertebrate Animals Whose Bones Are Found Buried in the Soil of France and their Comparison with Species Specific to Other Regions of the Globe (Second Edition)] 544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68437: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2007, edited by John Alroy, Philip Mannion, Terri Cleary and Patricia Holroyd

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