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
Cryptodira indet.
Broin 1977
Reptilia
Crataeomus sp. Seeley 1881
    = Rhodanosaurus ludgunensis n. gen., n. sp. Nopcsa 1929
Nopcsa 1929
nomen dubium belonging to Ankylosauria
Dryptosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Buffetaut 2005
Acynodon iberoccitanus Buscalioni et al. 1997
Martin 2007
ACAP-QR1 (an occipital portion of a skull)
Reptilia - Testudines
Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868
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]
17091ETE 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]
17087ETE 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]
17089ETE 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]
36728ETE 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]