Montagan roadworks, Mainxe (B2): Early/Lower Cenomanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Tribodus morlati (Landemaine 1991)
Vullo et al. 2007
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus paucicarinatus
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Engolismaia couillardi Vullo et al. 2007
Vullo et al. 2007
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Vullo et al. 2007
Turoniabatis cappettai Landemaine 1991
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
"Rhinobatos" sp. Link 1790
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Hamrabatis bernardezi Vullo et al. 2007
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygonoides pouiti Landemaine 1991
Vullo et al. 2007
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Protoscyliorhinus magnus Landemaine 1991
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium sp. Woodward 1889
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Chiloscyllium sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus (Cappetta and Case 1975)
Vullo et al. 2007
recombined as Eostriatolamia tenuiplicatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991
Vullo et al. 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)
Vullo et al. 2007
Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980
Vullo et al. 2007
Protolamna compressidens (Herman 1977)
Vullo et al. 2007
original and current combination Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Haimirichiidae
Carcharias amonensis (Cappetta and Case 1975)
Vullo et al. 2007
recombined as Haimirichia amonensis
Reptilia
Vullo et al. 2010
Shell fragments
    = Helochelys danubina von Meyer 1854
Joyce 2017
Reptilia - Simoliophiidae
Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage 1880
Vullo and Néraudeau 2008
MA MTG 3-12, vertebrae
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Crocodyliformes indet. (Hay 1930)
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia
Atoposauridae indet. (Gervais 1871)
Vullo and Néraudeau 2008
    = Theriosuchus sp. Owen 1878
Tennant et al. 2016
Iguanodontoidea indet. Hay 1902
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
1 specimen
MA MTG 1
? Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Reptilia - Carcharodontosauridae
? Carcharodontosauridae indet. Stromer 1931
Reptilia
Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904
1 specimen
MA MTG 2
    = Macronaria indet. Sereno 1997
Mannion et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes
Coordinates: 45.6° North, 0.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 1.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: B2gl subunit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic sandstone
Environment:paralic indet.
Geology comments: paralic detrital environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Jarnac
Database number:77229
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Clapham, P. Holroyd, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-04 14:10:22 Last modified:2020-05-28 16:32:39
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-04 14:10:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26151.ETE R. Vullo, D. Neraudeau, and T. Lenglet. 2007. Dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian of Charentes, western France: evidence for a mixed Laurasian-Gondwanan assemblage. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):931-943 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

62124 W. G. Joyce. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):65-113 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]
46153 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/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]
58201 J.-C. Rage, R. Vullo, and D. Néraudeau. 2016. The mid-Cretaceous snake Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage, 1880 (Squamata: Ophidia) from its type area (Charentes, southwestern France): Redescription, distribution, and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research 58:234-253 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/P. Mannion]
59838 J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
73638 R. Vullo, H. Cappetta, and D. Néraudeau. 2007. New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52:99-116 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
46358 R. Vullo, F. de Lapparent de Broin, D. Nerudeau and N. Durrieu. 2010. Turtles from the Early Cenomanian paralic deposits (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, France. Oryctos 9:37-48 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
29837 R. Vullo and D. Néraudeau. 2008. Cenomanian vertebrate assemblages from southwestern France: a new insight into the European mid-Cretaceous continental fauna. Cretaceous Research 29(5-6):930-935 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36357ETE R. Vullo, J.-C. Rage, and D. Neraudeau. 2011. Anuran and squamate remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, western France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):279-291 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]