Where: Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France (44.3° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 1.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Quercy Phosphorites Formation, Late/Upper Eocene to Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 23.0 Ma)
• General collection for specimens from the late Eocene-Oligocene of the Phosphorites du Quercy with no specific locality or age data, particularly from older museum collections.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S. Peigné. 2000. A new species of Eofelis (Carnivora: Nimravidae) from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 330(9):653-658 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184172: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eofelis giganteus n. sp.
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