Also known as Tuffeau de Saint-Symphorien
Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 3.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Saint-Symphorien Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1911
• Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum.
•Label states "Plesiosaurus, Maastrichtian Saint-Symphorien 1911".
Primary reference: E. W. A. Mulder, N. Bardet, P. Godefroit and J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Elasmosaur remains from the Maastrichtian type area, and a review of latest Cretaceous elasmosaurs (Reptilia, Plesiosauroidea). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturalles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 70:161-178 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143255: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.04.2013
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