La Mas d'Azil (Brusquette Farm): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected by J. J. Pouech 1859

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
"eggs of great dimension"
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Cousin 2002
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp. (Matheron 1869)
Le Loeuff 1998
Reptilia
Ankylosauria indet. (Osborn 1923)
Le Loeuff 1998
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Le Loeuff 1993
caudals and tibiae from two different species; coll. Museum College Jean XXIII, Pamiers
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Aude County:Ariège
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.0° North, 1.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès de Labarre
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,phosphatic,gray,white poorly lithified cherty/siliceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandstones with iron phosphates and limonite, siliceous, fragile, no calcite cement, white or gray but rusting when exposed
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. J. Pouech Collection dates:1859
Collection method comments: collected by Abbé J. J. Pouech in 1859, kept at Collège Jean XXIII, Pamiers (Ariège); includes eggs as well as bones
Taxonomic list comments:also mentions a reptile tooth "attributable to the genus Dragone", but it is not clear what this means
Metadata
Also known as:Le Mas-d'Azil
Database number:48862
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-01 06:14:30 Last modified:2023-11-13 14:58:00
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-01 06:14:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23496.ETE A. Pouech. 1859. Mémoire sur les terrains tertiaires de l'Ariège rapportés à une coupe transversale menée de Fossat à Aillères, passant par le Mas-d'Azil, et projectée sur le méridien de ce lieu [Memoir on the Tertiary terrains of Ariège exposed along a transverse section drawn from Fossat to Aillères, passing by Mas-d'Azil, and projected onto the meridian of this site]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 16:381-411 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45554 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]
76867 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1993. The discovery of French dinosaurs. Modern Geology 18:161-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18842ETE E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 1994. The discovery of dinosaur eggshells in nineteenth-century France. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsh & J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 31-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13026ETE E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the foothills of the Pyrenees. Geology Today 1997(3-4):60-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13042ETE E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, S. Duffaud, E. Gheerbrant, Y. Laurent, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, H. Tong and D. Vasse. 1997. Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: a review of recent finds. Géobios 20:101-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
86456 R. Cousin. 2002. Organisation des pontes de dinosauriens de la parafamille des Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979 [Organization of dinosaur clutches of the parafamily Megaloolithidae Zhao, 1979]. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique du Normandie et Amis du Muséum du Havre 89(1–4):1-177 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59044 Y. Laurent, J. Le Loeuff, M. Bilotte, E. Buffetaut, and G. S. Odin. 2001. Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France). In G. S. Odin (ed.), The Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:657-674 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36728ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67934 J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1995. The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 181-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30636ETE J. Villatte, P. Taquet, and M. Bilotte. 1986. Nouveaux restes de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé terminal de l'anticlinal de Dreuilhe. État des connaissances dans le domaine sous-pyrénéen [New dinosaur remains in the terminal Cretaceous of the Dreuilhe Anticline. State of knowledge in the sub-Pyrennean domain]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 89-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]