Airel Quarry (Triassic to of France)

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.2° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moon-Airel Formation, Rhaetian to Rhaetian (208.5 - 199.3 Ma)

• uppermost Rhaetian to Hettangian, "Conglomérat et argiles d'Airel"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandy claystone and lenticular, sandy limestone

• "margino-littoral deposits" (Buffetaut 1994)
• "blackish, sandy-clayey beds that cover the sandy limestone lenses"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Pareyn in 1959

Collection methods: core, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Larsonneur and A. F. Lapparent. 1966. Un dinosaurien carnivore, Halticosaurus, dans le Rhétien d'Airel (Manche) [A dinosaurian carnivore, Halticosaurus, in the Rhaetian of Airel (Manche)]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 7:108-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49654: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
aff. Classopollis sp. Pflug 1953
"essentially Classopollis"
Lycopsida
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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"Liliensternus airelensis n. sp." = Lophostropheus airelensis
"Liliensternus airelensis n. sp." = Lophostropheus airelensis Cuny and Galton 1993 coelophysoid
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus normanniae n. sp. Larsonneur 1964