Also known as Genusaurus type

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France (44.2° N, 5.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.5° N, 26.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes bleues Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, green, argillaceous sandstone and calcareous marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1984-1986

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. Accarie, B. Beaudoin, J. Dejax, G. Friès, J.-G. Michard and P. Taquet. 1995. Découverte d'un Dinosaure théropode nouveau (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) dans l'Albien marin de Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) et extension au Crétacé inférieur de la lignée cératosaurienne [Discovery of a new theropod dinosaur (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) in the marine Albian of Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) and extension of the ceratosaur lineage into the Lower Cretaceous]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, série IIa 320:327-344 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70458: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2007, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Valentin Fischer

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