Near Caylus (old Quercy collection) (Oligocene of France)

Where: Occitanie, France (44.2° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MP 25 (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; phosphorite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Wolsan and B. Lange-Badré. 1996. An arctomorph carnivoran skull from the Phosphorites du Quercy and the origin of procyonids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 41(3):277-298 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184214: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.02.2017, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora -
Pseudobassaris riggsi n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudobassaris riggsi n. gen. n. sp. Pohle 1917 carnivoran
YPM-PU 11455
Aves
 Gruiformes - Idiornithidae
Dynamopterus velox Milne-Edwards 1891 bird