Pourcieux, Les Tuillières (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Méchin in the 1980s

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, P. Mechin, and A. Mechin-Salessy. 1988. Un dinosaure théropode d'affinités gondwaniennes dans le Crétacé supérieur de Provence [A theropod dinosaur of Gondwanan affinities in the Upper Cretaceous of Provence]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 306:153-158 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51692: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.06.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
? Arcovenator sp.2 Tortosa et al. 2014 ceratosaur
maxilla
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.3 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Polysternon provinciale1 Matheron 1869 sideneck turtle