Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.3° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 3.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Rognacian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; ferruginous claystone and sandstone
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•‘‘The vertebrates are scattered through a thickness of about 1 m of variegated clays which sometimes contain iron oxide nodules, and are cut by unfossiliferous sandy channels. It would appear to be a floodplain deposit’’ (Buffetaut et al., 1999)
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1996-
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1998. First evidence of enantiornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe: postcranial bones from Cruzy (Hérault, southern France). Oryctos 1:131-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 48870: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Evangelos Vlachos and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Crocodylomorpha indet.9 Hay 1930 crocodilian M2401, a posterior portion of the left ramus of a mandible
Eusuchia indet.3 Huxley 1875 crocodilian M2496, isolated premaxilla; M1343, occipital portion of a skull
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? Azhdarchidae indet.2 Nessov 1984 pterosaur Wing metacarpal; Musée de Cruzy, No. M3929, right distal syncarpal
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Aves | |
Enantiornithes indet. Walker 1981 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Dromaeosauridae indet.6 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran "probably"; MC-M324, M561, M938, M228, M187, claw
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Ampelosaurus atacis Le Loeuff 1995 sauropod | |
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