Venelles: Aquitanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Diplocynodon cf. ratelii Pomel 1847
Cornée collection - partial skeleton in a slab
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Bouches-du-Rhône
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 5.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 3.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Aquitanian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Série du gypse d'Aix
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: limestone marl
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:143488
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-24 03:40:03 Last modified:2013-04-23 12:42:09
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-24 03:40:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46496. E. Buffetaut and J.-J. Cornée. 1982. Le Crocodilien Diplocynodon (Eusuchia, Alligatoridae) dans la série du gypse d'Aix à Venelles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) [The crocodilian Diplocynodon (Eusuchia, Alligatoridae) in the gypsum series of Aix à Venelles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)]. Geobios 15(2):209-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]