Mesnil-Saint-Père, 300 m east of mouth: Early/Lower Albian, France
collected by J.-L. Petit
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Douvilleiceratidae
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Douvilleiceras sp.
Grossouvre 1894
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Lyelliceratidae
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Lyelliceras sp.
Spath 1921
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Hoplitidae
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Hoplites sp.
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Isohoplites sp.
Casey 1954
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| spelled with current rank as Hoplites (Isohoplites) | ||||||||||
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Otohoplites sp.
Steinmann 1925
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
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Lamellibranchia indet.
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| replaced by Autobranchia | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Crustacea indet.
Brünnich 1772
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| invalid subgroup of Pancrustacea | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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cf. Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Pliosauridae indet.
Seeley 1874
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Buffetaut et al. 2005 | |||||||||
| Petit collection | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Champagne-Ardenne | County: | Aube |
| Coordinates: | 48.2° North, 4.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° North, 10.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: layers succeed those of the "Sables verts de l'Aube" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | J.-L. Petit |
Metadata
| Database number: | 53541 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-11 22:27:37 | Last modified: | 2013-12-11 16:39:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-11 22:27:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14471. | ETE | F. Knoll, C. Colleté, B. Dubus and J.-L. Petit. 2000. On the presence of a sauropod dinosaur (Saurischia) in the Albian of Aube (France). Geodiversitas 22(3):389-394 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 15220 | ETE | E. Buffetaut, C. Colletté, B. Dubus and J.-L. Petit. 2005. The "sauropod" from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, France): a pliosaur, not a dinosaur. Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology - Letter 2005(1):1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |