Rabassier near Barret-le-Bas (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (44.3° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• "Lower Valanginian (Campylotoxus Zone)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; argillaceous limestone

• within a "slumping" that interrupts a series of alternating beds; "mer overte" environment
• "Le squelette reposait à la partie supérieure d'un banc de calcaire argileux surmonté par un intervale marneux d'une vingtaine de centimètres puis par un banc calcaire très diaclase, de 20 cm, affleurant en surface structurale."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "trouvé en place"

Primary reference: S. Hua, P. Vignaud, F. Atrops and A. Clément. 2000. Enaliosuchus macrospondylus Koken, 1883 (Crocodylia, Metriorhynchidae) du Valanginien de Barret-le-Bas (Hautes Alpes, France): un cas unique de remontée des narines externes parmi les crocodiliens. Geobíos 33(4):467-474 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68272: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.01.2007, edited by Valentin Fischer

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomeniensis
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Busnardoites campylotoxus, Neocomites neocomiensis
Busnardoites campylotoxus Uhlig 1901 ammonite
Neocomites neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Saynoceras fuhri, "Olcostephanus guebhardi" = Olcostephanus atherstoni
Saynoceras fuhri Bulot et al. 1990 ammonite
"Olcostephanus guebhardi" = Olcostephanus atherstoni Sharpe 1856 ammonite
Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
"Enaliosuchus macrospondylus" = Cricosaurus macrospondylus
"Enaliosuchus macrospondylus" = Cricosaurus macrospondylus Koken 1883 marine crocodile
Collection Clement, Reserve Naturelle Geologique de Haute Provence, Digne les Bains, no. 990201 - partial skeleton
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 ichthyosaur