Also known as Hypselosaurus type, Bassin d'Aix, gare de Rognac
Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 4.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Rognacian"; base of the Rognacian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. Matheron, L. Roule in 1869
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: P. Matheron. 1869. Notice sur les reptiles fossiles des dépôts fluvio-lacustres crétacés du bassin à lignite de Fuveau [Notice on the fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous fluvio-lacustrine deposits of the lignitic Fuveau Basin]. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts de Marseille 1868–1869:345-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48863: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aphodidemys gaudryi n. sp.
Aphodidemys gaudryi n. sp. | |
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? Dinosauria indet.2 dinosaur "Reptilian eggshells seem to belong, by their microscopic structure, to Chelonian eggs, while their size tends to attribute them to Hypselosaurus or Rhabdodon"
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Hypselosaurus priscus n. gen. n. sp.
Hypselosaurus priscus n. gen. n. sp. Matheron 1869 titanosaurid | |
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