La Chaussée: Middle Cenomanian, France
collected by A. Brignon 1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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Buffetaut and Brignon 1999 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Holocephali
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Holocephali indet.
Bonaparte 1832
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Buffetaut and Brignon 1999 | |||||||||
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Actinopterygii
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Actinopterygii indet.
Cope 1887
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Buffetaut and Brignon 1999 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Serpentes
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Serpentes indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Buffetaut and Brignon 1999 | |||||||||
| "marine snakes" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Buffetaut and Brignon 1999 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| coll. A Brignon no. CHA 62 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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| teeth, scute | ||||||||||
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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 Brignon 1999 | |||||||||
| synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Centre | County: | Indre-et-Loire |
| Coordinates: | 47.1° North, 0.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 1.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Sables de Varennes | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: considered the lateral equivalent of the Sables de Vierzon | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "glauconitic sands" | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: a littoral deposit in shallow, active water | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Minimum sieve size: | 0.500 | Maximum sieve size: | 2.000 |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. Brignon | Collection dates: | 1985 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Varennes | ||
| Database number: | 74071 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-07-20 07:03:56 | Last modified: | 2013-06-11 13:51:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-20 07:03:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 24865 | ETE | E. Buffetaut and A. Brignon. 1999. Une dent de Nodosauridé (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) dans le Cénomanien de Touraine [A nodosaurid tooth (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) from the Cenomanian of Touraine]. Géologie de la France 1:49-52 [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] |