Where: Somme, France (49.0° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 4.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: white chalk
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141941: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 03.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mosasaurus gaudryi n. sp., Platecarpus somenensis n. sp.
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