Also known as Butte Montmartre, Paris

Where: Ile-de-France Region, France (48.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cuvier, Gervais; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: G. Cuvier. 1804. Memoire sur le squelette presque entier d'un petit quadrupede du genre des sarigues, trouvé dans la pierre a platre des environs de Paris. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 5:277-292 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31739: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 24.05.2003, edited by John Alroy, Mark Uhen, Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion, Matthew Carrano, Grace Varnham and Evangelos Vlachos

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