Notre-Dame-de-Riez: Early/Lower Santonian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Onchosaurus sp.
Gervais 1852
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Buffetaut and Pouit 1994 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Buffetaut and Pouit 1994 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Buffetaut and Pouit 1994 | |||||||||
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= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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Buffetaut and Pouit 1994 | |||||||||
| synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Pays de la Loire | County: | Vendée |
| Coordinates: | 46.7° North, 1.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 0.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "lignite-bearing clayey–sandy deposits" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | lignite |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandy clays with lignite levels" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "shallow marine" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ligneron | ||
| Database number: | 67998 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-20 14:08:11 | Last modified: | 2022-03-08 14:51:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-12-20 14:08:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 19451 | ETE | E. Buffetaut. 1994. The significance of dinosaur remains in marine sediments: an investigation based on the French record. In R. Kohring & T. Martin (eds.), Miscellanea Palaeontologica 3: Festschrift Bernard Krebs. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen, Reihe E 13:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 47162 | E. Buffetaut and D. Pouit. 1994. Restes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans le Crétacé supérieur du Centre-Ouest de la France [Dinosaur and crocodilian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central France]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 319:253-259 [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] | |
| 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] |