Where: Pays de la Loire, France (48.0° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthoceras jukesbrownei ammonoid zone, Sables du Perche Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• top of middle Cenomanian, Acanthoceras jukesbrownei zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; coarse-grained, green sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Guéranger in 1851

• collected 1851 by Gueranger, collection at Université de Le Mans

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1994. The significance of dinosaur remains in marine sediments: an investigation based on the French record. In R. Kohring & T. Martin (eds.), Miscellanea Palaeontologica 3: Festschrift Bernard Krebs. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen, Reihe E 13:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48860: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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