Canal du Der, Saint-Dizier (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Haute-Marne, France (48.6° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès et Sables Piquetés Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous, micaceous, red, yellow sandstone

• "very fine sandstones at the base and coarser ones following; they are micaceous, reddish-yellow, with siliceous cement most often...rather hard and ferruginous."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Soudet in 1971

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53677: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon bernissartensis
Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881 ornithopod