Also known as C. corallestris type site
Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.7° N, 6.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: mucronatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• unnamed limestone bed, "Portlandian", mucronatum ammonite zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lime mudstone and fine, carbonaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Ghirardi family, MNHN crews in 1960s–1970s, 1983–1993, 2010–2011; reposited in the MNHN
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Bidar, L. Demay, and G. Thomel. 1972. Compsognathus corallestris, nouvelle espèce de dinosaurien théropode du Portlandien de Canjuers (sud-est de la France). Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice 1(1):1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35262: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2003, edited by Richard Butler and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Pycnodontiformes indet.5 Berg 1937 | |
Gyrodus sp.5 Agassiz 1833 | |
Proscinetes sp.5 Gistel 1848 | |
Belonostomus sp.5 Agassiz 1834 | |
Pholidophorus sp.5 Agassiz 1832 | |
"Leptolepidae indet." = Leptolepididae5, "Leptolepis sp." = Leptolepis5, "Tharsis sp." = Leptolepis5
"Leptolepidae indet." = Leptolepididae5 Owen 1859
"Leptolepis sp." = Leptolepis5 Agassiz 1832
"Tharsis sp." = Leptolepis5 Agassiz 1832 | |
Elopomorpha indet.5 Greenwood et al. 1966 | |
Elopidae indet.5 Bonaparte 1846 | |
Naiathaelon okkidion5 Poyato-Ariza and Wenz 1993 | |
Pachycormidae indet.5 Woodward 1895 | |
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Piocormus laticeps n. gen. n. sp.5 Wagner 1852 lepidosaur Holotype: Fig 42, pl. V; lost, but there is a cast at MNHN (nearly complete skeleton). Additional material from the MNHN.
Leptosaurus pulchellus4 Zittel 1887 lepidosaur MNHN CNJ 72, nearly complete skeleton; Private collection specimen, anterior skeleton
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Pleurosaurus ginsburgi n. sp.2 Fabre 1974 lepidosaur Holotype (part and counterp.): "Pleurosaurus cf. goldfussi L. Ginsburg and G. Mennessier 1970" (MNHN specimen)
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"Compsognathus corallestris n. sp." = Compsognathus longipes
"Compsognathus corallestris n. sp." = Compsognathus longipes Wagner 1861 elegant jaw | |
Gallodactylus canjuersensis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Plesiochelyidae indet.1 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle CNJ 76, juvenile skeleton, "Aff. SOLNHOFIA sp." in Fabre et al. 1982.
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"Eugnathus sp." = Furo5
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Chondrichthyes | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Asteroidea | |
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Ophiuroidea | |
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Echinoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Nanogyra striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula5
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Cephalopoda | |
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites)5
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Usseliceras (Subplanitoides) altegyratum5, Usseliceras (Subplanitoides) aff. spindelense5, Usseliceras (Subplanitoides) cf. scwertschlageri5, Usseliceras (Usseliceras) cf. franconicum5, Dorsoplanitoides triplicatus5
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Juralina insignis" = Loboidothyris insignis5
"Juralina insignis" = Loboidothyris insignis5 Schübler 1820 | |
Ismenia pectunculoides5 Schlotheim 1820 | |
Torquirhynchia guebhardi5 Jacob and Fallot 1913 | |
? Somalirhynchia sp.5 Weir 1925 | |
Malacostraca | |
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Kouphichnium lithographicum5 Oppel 1862 |