Also known as Roquefort-sur-Garonne, Mauran

Where: Haute-Garonne, France (43.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Lestaillats Formation (Ausseing Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• also referred to as the "Marnes d'Auzas"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; bioturbated, black, gray, carbonaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Y. Laurent in 1993, 1994, 1997

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1994. The significance of dinosaur remains in marine sediments: an investigation based on the French record. In R. Kohring & T. Martin (eds.), Miscellanea Palaeontologica 3: Festschrift Bernard Krebs. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen, Reihe E 13:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48865: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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