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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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