Where: Afghanistan (34.3° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 70.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khurdkabul Formation, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• "Turolian"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1977, 1978; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: E. Heintz, M. Brunet, and B. Battail. 1981. A cercopithecid primate from the late miocene of Molayan, Afghanistan, with remarks on Mesopithecus. International Journal of Primatology 2(3):273-284 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75492: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 14.10.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and John Alroy

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