Mas de Gaston: MP 23, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Schizotherium priscum Gervais 1876
de Bonis 1995
Mammalia - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomeryx chalaniati Pomel 1853
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Quercy County:Lot Département
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 1.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 1.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:MP 23
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: phosphorite
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Also known as:Quercy Phosporites
Database number:183378
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-12-14 08:09:01 Last modified:2016-12-14 08:09:01
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-14 08:09:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61216. C. Blondel. 1997. Les ruminants de Pech Desse et de Pech du Fraysse (Quercy; MP28); évolution des ruminants de l'oligocène d'Europe. Geobios 30(4):573-591 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

61222 L. de Bonis. 1995. Le Garouillas et les sites contemporains (Oligocène, MP 25) des phosphorites du Quercy (Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) et leurs faunes de vertébrés. 11. Perissodactyles: Chalicotherioidea. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 236(1-6):191-204 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]