Sarlat (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Mosasaur locality

Where: Aquitaine, France (44.3° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 3.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Sarlat railway station

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandy limestone

• Yellow sandstone-like bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 141945: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 03.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurinae indet. Wiliston 1895 mosasaur
MNHN 1953-11 is an unpublished mandibular anterior portion