Genus: Polysternon PORTIS, 1882
Etymology:

Species: provinciale (MATHERON, 1869)
Etymology:

Lectotype: MNHN Matheron Collection.

Locality: Buveau-Valdonne Basin, Bouches-du-Rhone Department, France.

Horizon: Fuvelian.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Nearly complete shell.

Referred material:

= Polysteron (= Polysternum) proviniciale in PORTIS, 1882

Number: Not given: Portion of a carapace.

 

BUFFETAUT, COSTA, Le LOEUFF, MARTIN, RAGE, VALENTIN & TONG, 1996

Locality: Villeveyrac, Heralut Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Costa Collection: An almost complete shell, with both carapace and plasteron, and many isolated plates.

Costa collection, MDE-Vil-12: Skull.

TONG & GAFFNEY, 2000

Costa Collection AE28: Skull.

 


GARCIA & PEREDA SUBERBIOLA, 2003

Locality: L’Olivet Quarry, Villeveyrac, Herault Department, France.

Horizon: Lignite-bearing grey clays, ‘Fuvelian” continental local stage.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

LE LEOUFF & BUFFETAUT, 1995

Locality: Fuveau, Bouches Du-Rhone Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:


Locality: Villeveyrac, Heralut Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 


= Elochelys major NOPCSA, 1931
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality: Buveau-Valdonne Basin, Bouches-du-Rhone Department, France.

Horizon: Fuvelian.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Dorsal plastron.

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Species: isonae MARMI, LUJAN, RIERA, GAETE, OMS & GALOBART, 2012
Etymology: In reference to the village of Isona, Pallars Jussa, Catalonia, Spain, the municipal district in which teh fossils wre found.

Holotype: MCD-5094

Locality: Barranc de Torrebilles, Isona i Conca Della, Pallars Jussa, Catalonia, Spain.

Horizon: Tremp Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Anterior half of a plastron, nuchal,left peripheral 1, left periphearal 3 and a fragment of a carpace with partial left costal 1 and neurals 1 and 2.

Paratype:

MCD-5095: Incomplete articualted shell.