Also known as Apt, Gargas, Saint-Saturnin-d'Apt, Sainte Radegonde; La Débruge

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region, France (43.9° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MP 18 mammal zone, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• stratified locality referred to the 'Ludien' age. The level is in fact a lens that disappears toward the South and the West.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; black, sandy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

• The first mention of the collection was made by Gervais in 1846. This primary ref is currently being searched (Fara). Most Saturninia gracilis specimens are in MNHN, with types in Muséum de Bâle.

Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31747: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 24.05.2003, edited by Robin Whatley, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Patricia Holroyd, David Nicholson, Terri Cleary, Philip Mannion, Pauline Coster and Evangelos Vlachos

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