Cruzy (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.4° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Saint-Chinian Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• late Campanian-early Maastrichtian according to Buffetaut and Angst (2016)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Depéret in the 1890s

Primary reference: M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138411: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 17.01.2013, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.2 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
Unpublished
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus tenuis Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994 dinosaur
eggshell fragments
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
? Theriosuchus sp.1 Owen 1878 crocodilian
Isolated teeth