Tricouté 2: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France
collected by E. Gheerbrant & C. Abrial 1994

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Lacertilia indet. (Owen 1842)
2 specimens
jaw fragments
Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827
1 specimen
vertebra
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
4 specimens
MDA-Ma2-01, 02, 03; tooth, caudal, tibia, metatarsal
    = Hadrosauroidea indet. Huene 1954
Dalla Vecchia 2014
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
teeth
Aves indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
scapula
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
4 specimens
3 teeth, 1 metacarpal
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Haute-Garonne
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 1.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes d'Auzas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near bottom of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",pebbly sandstone
Secondary lithology:green marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Cross-bedded sandstones; "green marls surmounted by a thick sandstone bank, whose erosive base and clay pebbles give evidence of channelization"
Environment:coarse channel fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:E. Gheerbrant & C. Abrial Collection dates:1994
Metadata
Also known as:MA 2, Marignac-Laspeyres
Database number:67195
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-13 09:07:46 Last modified:2022-03-08 15:05:19
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-13 09:07:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

12506ETE J. E. Company, A. Galobart, and R. Gaete. 1998. First data on the hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain. Oryctos 1:121-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
56237 Y. Laurent. 2003. Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]. Strata, Série 2 41:1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
38063 Y. Laurent, M. Bilotte, and J. Le Loeuff. 2002. Late Maastrichtian continental vertebrates from southwestern France: correlation with marine fauna. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 187:121-135 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]