Where: Lot, France (44.5° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Late Lower Pleistocene. Originally thought to be a Plio-Pleistocene site, but later work suggests it is more likely to be Lower/Middle Pleistocene instead.

Environment/lithology: phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection held in the Musee de la ville de Gaillac (Tarn).

Primary reference: E. Harle and H.G. Stehlin. 1909. Une nouvelle faune de Mammiferes des Phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin - Societe Geologique de France 9(4):39-52 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48981: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.04.2005