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
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | |||||||||
freshwater bivalves | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Foxemys mechinorum
Tong et al. 1998
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Gaffney et al. 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MC uncataloged, shell | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | |||||||||
= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhabdodontidae
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Rhabdodon sp.
(Matheron 1869)
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Pincemaille-Quillevere et al. 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MN25 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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1 specimen | |||||||||
femur | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Gargantuaviidae
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Gargantuavis philoinos
Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MC-MN478 (cervical vertebra), MC-MN 1335 (femur) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Buffetaut and Angst 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Azhdarchidae
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Azhdarchidae indet.
Nessov 1984
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Buffetaut and Tong 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
cervical vertebra | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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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] | |
17194 | ETE | 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] |