Montplô Nord, Cruzy: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected by J.-C. Guilhaumon 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
freshwater bivalves
Reptilia - Testudines
Foxemys mechinorum Tong et al. 1998
Gaffney et al. 2006 1 specimen
MC uncataloged, shell
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp. (Matheron 1869)
Pincemaille-Quillevere et al. 2006 1 specimen
MN25
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
Reptilia - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985
1 specimen
femur
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
Reptilia - Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuavis philoinos Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998
Buffetaut and Angst 2013 1 specimen
MC-MN478 (cervical vertebra), MC-MN 1335 (femur)
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
Reptilia - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet. Nessov 1984
Buffetaut and Tong 2010 1 specimen
cervical vertebra
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Buffetaut and Angst 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon County:Hérault
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 3.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 3.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:80 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès à Reptiles
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red marl
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Continental red marls interbedded with sandstone lenses
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: floodplain environment; "a braided river affected by flood episodes under a climate alternating dry and wet seasons"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J.-C. Guilhaumon Collection dates:1996
Collection method comments: discovered by Jean-Claude Guilhaumon
Metadata
Also known as:Montplô-Nord
Database number:59887
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-19 12:30:09 Last modified:2022-03-08 14:54:12
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-19 12:30:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34138.ETE R. Fléaux. 1999. La terreur du crétacé [The terror of the Cretaceous]. Sciences et Avenir May 1999:46-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29712 E. Buffetaut. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43870 E. Buffetaut and D. Angst. 2013. New evidence of a giant bird from the Late Cretaceous of France. Geological Magazine 150(1):173-176 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
76673 E. Buffetaut and D. Angst. 2019. A femur of the Late Cretaceous giant bird Gargantuavis from Cruzy (southern France) and its systematic implications. Palaeovertebrata 42(1):e3:1-6 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
76791 E. Buffetaut and H. Tong. 2010. An azhdarchid pterosaur cervical vertebra from a new Late Cretaceous vertebrate locality at Cruzy (Hérault, southern France). 8th Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Abstract Volume 20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76814 L. Cavin, E. Buffetaut, Y. Dutour, G. Garcia, J. Le Loeuff, A. Méchin, P. Méchin, H. Tong, T. Tortosa, E. Turini, and X. Valentin. 2020. The last known freshwater coelacanths: new Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from southern France. PLoS One 15(6):e0234183:1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27976 E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
80599 E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17194ETE M. G. Pincemaille-Quillevere, E. Buffetaut, and F. Quillevere. 2006. Description ostéologique de l'arrière-crâne de Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Euornithopoda) et implications phylogénetiques [Osteological description of the braincase of Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Euornithopoda) and phylogenetic implications]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 177(2):97-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]