Quarante, Cruzy: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected by C. Depéret 1890
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Cryptodira indet.
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Broin 1977 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Crataeomus sp.
Seeley 1881
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= Rhodanosaurus ludgunensis n. gen., n. sp.
Nopcsa 1929
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Nopcsa 1929 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Ankylosauria | ||||||||||
Dryptosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Buffetaut 2005 | |||||||||
Acynodon iberoccitanus
Buscalioni et al. 1997
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Martin 2007 | |||||||||
ACAP-QR1 (an occipital portion of a skull) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Dortoka sp.
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
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Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelomedusidae indet.
Cope 1868
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Broin 1977 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Languedoc-Roussillon | County: | Hérault |
Coordinates: | 43.4° North, 3.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.5° North, 3.4° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 128 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Saint-Chinian | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: late Campanian-early Maastrichtian according to Buffetaut and Angst (2016) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "brightly colored bariolitic clays, alternating with sandy banks" | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | C. Depéret | Collection dates: | 1890s |
Metadata
Also known as: | Saint-Chinian | ||
Database number: | 59687 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-04-07 08:48:37 | Last modified: | 2021-03-29 11:30:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-07 08:48:37 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17088. | ETE | C. Depéret. 1899. Aperçu sur la géologie du chainon de Saint-Chinian [Outline of the geology of the Saint-Chinian chain]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 27:686-709 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
60047 | F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
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] | |
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] | |
17091 | ETE | C. Depéret. 1900. Sur les Dinosauriens des étages de Rognac et de Vitrolles du pied de la Montagne-Noire [On the dinosaurs of the Rognac and Vitrolles stages from the foot of Montagne-Noire]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 130:637-639 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17087 | ETE | C. Depéret. 1900. Une série de pièces osseuses de Dinosauriens récemment découvertes...dans le région de Saint-Chinian [A series of dinosaur bone pieces recently discovered...in the Saint-Chinian region]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 28:107-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17089 | ETE | C. Depéret. 1900. Note sur de nouveaux dinosauriens du Crétacé supérieur de la Montagne-Noire [Note on some new dinosaur remans from the Upper Cretaceous of Montagne-Noire]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 28:530 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
57901 | E. F. Gautier. 1901. Les dinosauriens de la Montagne-Noire [The dinosaurs of Montagne-Noire]. L’Année Scientifique et Industrielle 44:113-115 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Carrano] | |
45933 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1938. Sur l’âge crétacé (danien) de tous les gisements à Dinosauriens du pied de la Montagne Noire [On the Cretaceous (Danian) age of all the dinosaur localities from the foot of the Montagne Noire]. Comptes Rendus de la Société Géologique de France 1938:288-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
46006 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Les dinosauriens du Crétacé Supérieur du Midi de la France [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the south of France]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 56:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
45099 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1967. Les dinosaures de France [The dinosaurs of France]. Sciences 51:4-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
44196 | F. d. Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga Bereikua, and V. Codrea. 2004. Presence of Dortokidae (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the earliest Tertiary of the Jibou Formation, Romania: paleobiogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:203-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
36728 | ETE | J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
37002 | J. E. Martin. 2007. New material of the Late Cretaceous globidontan Acynodon iberoccitanus (Crocodylia) from southern France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):362-372 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
51605 | B. F. Nopcsa. 1929. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen V. [Dinosaur remains from Siebenbürgen V]. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 4:1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |