Sainte-Colombe (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as La Bonneville

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.4° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 1.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bonissent

• must have been collected before 1875

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaurid (Squamata) Prognathodon in the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy, northwestern France). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(2):111-115 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142087: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889 mosasaur
FSL 532948, a tooth crown from the median part of the jaw