Also known as Varennes

Where: Centre, France (47.1° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sables de Varennes Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• considered the lateral equivalent of the Sables de Vierzon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by A. Brignon in 1985

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and D. Pouit. 1994. Restes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans le Crétacé supérieur du Centre-Ouest de la France [Dinosaur and crocodilian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central France]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 319:253-259 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74071: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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