Basségat (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Fox-Amphoux

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.6° N, 6.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 7.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Danian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular sandstone and claystone

• clays and sandy lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Oanescorse, Lapparent in 1939

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Les dinosauriens du Crétacé Supérieur du Midi de la France [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the south of France]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 56:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141601: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
"Rhabdodon priscum" = Rhabdodon priscus
"Rhabdodon priscum" = Rhabdodon priscus Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
femur