Lambeau de Beausset (Cretaceous to of France)

Also known as Tarascosaurus type, Le Beausset

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.2° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• unknown formation, "Fuvelian"; early-middle Campanian following Fondevilla et al. (2019)

•Chron C33r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone

• "a vein-stone made of a grayish limestone" (translated by M. Carrano)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1991. Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., dinosaure théropode du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., a theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 25(5):585-594 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28456: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Tarascosaurus salluvicus n. gen. n. sp.
Tarascosaurus salluvicus n. gen. n. sp. Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1991 ceratosaur
FSL 330201