Saint-Estève-Janson: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected 1960

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ischyrochampsa meridionalis n. gen., n. sp. Vasse 1995
Vasse 1995
nomen dubium belonging to Neosuchia
MHNM FRR - holotype (incomplete lower jaw and extremity of rostrum)
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Buffetaut et al. 1991
undescribed
    = Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Le Loeuff 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur County:Bouches-du-Rhône
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 5.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° North, 5.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sables du Rognacien
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1960s
Metadata
Also known as:Ischyrochampsa meridionalis type, Saint-Estève-Jeanson
Database number:114997
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano Enterer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-08-26 21:16:50 Last modified:2021-05-07 09:53:24
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-26 21:16:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52461. M. M. Penner. 1985. The problem of dinosaur extinction. Contribution of the study of terminal Cretaceous eggshells from southeast France. Geobios 18(5):665-669 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]

Secondary references:

45554 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67934 J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1995. The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 181-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
37241 D. Vasse. 1995. Ischyrochampsa meridionalis n. g. n. sp., un crocodilien d’affinité gondwanienne dans le Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 8:501-512 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]