Bendel Vineyard (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Bouches-du-Rhone

Where: France (43.3° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• ‘argiles et gres a reptiles'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Martin, M. Rabi, Z. Csiki-Sava and S. Vasile. 2014. Cranial morphology of Theriosuchus sympiestodon (Mesoeucrocodylia, Atoposauridae) and the widespread occurrence in the Late Cretaceous of Europe. Journal of Paleontology 88(3):444-456 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156130: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 09.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
? Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878 crocodilian
MHN AIX PV 2011.15.1, fragmentary maxilla