Les Fontaines, Saint-Agnant, Brouage (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Boissellier termed the beds "les argiles rouges à Megalosaure" (1893) and later "assises à Corbula inflexa du Purbeckian" (1894, 1895)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green claystone and yellow limestone

• bones reported as from "lenses of red or white clay" but matrix on bones is "pale green clay or ocher-beige gravelly limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Roy in 1881

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Collection in La Rochelle museum. Found when ploughing a field.

Primary reference: A.-M. Boissellier. 1881. Note sur les assises inférieures du Cénomanien a l’embouchure de la Charente [Note on the lower Cenomanian beds at the mouth of the Charente]. Comptes Rendus de l’Association Française pour l’Avancement des Sciences 10e sess:568-574 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139921: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Neosauropoda indet.
Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
NHNLR Pa 826–830, 2001.0.7