Also known as Campagne-sur-Aude
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (42.9° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 2.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes de la Maurine Member (Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper part of the Maurine Red Marls Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; red marl and lenticular, fine-grained, coarse conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Clottes, Raynaud in 1986-
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• also includes "remains of plants and invertebrates"
Primary reference: P. Clottes and C. Raynaud. 1983. Le gisement à dinosauriens de Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Observations préliminaires. Premiers résultats [The dinosaur locality at Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Preliminary observations. First results]. Bulletin de la Société d'Études Scientifiques de l'Aude 83:5-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48850: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gargantuavis philoinos n. gen. n. sp.2
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Plantae indet.6 Haeckel 1866 |