Plô Saint-Pons (Cretaceous to of France)

Also known as Plo Saint Pons

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.4° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88585: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp. Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
MC-PSP6; "significantly similar to that of Variraptor mechinorum"