Also known as Périgueux

Where: Aquitaine, France (45.2° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Craie tuffeau Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• possibly the "craie tuffeau" facies (late Coniacian to Santonian), but could be Campanian near Lisle River

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Gervais in 1848–1852

Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67999: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.12.2006

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