Le Jadet Quarry (lower) (Cretaceous to of France)

Also known as Saint-Martory

Where: Haute-Garonne, France (43.1° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de plage Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• no formal formation names given.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; marl

• "The emergent terrains of this epoch extended markedly more to the west of this locality, while the Upper Cretaceous continental is present a dozen kilometers to the east of the quarry where the piece we described was found."

•(French translated by M. Carrano.)

• "Subjacent is a thick mass of Campano-Maastrichtian marly flysch (beach marls)"

•(French translated by M. Carrano)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. -P. Paris and P. Taquet. 1973. Découverte d'un fragment de dentaire d'Hadrosaurien (Reptile Dinosaurien) dans le Crétacé supérieur des Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne) [Discovery of a fragment of dentary from a hadrosaurian (dinosaurian reptile) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne)]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3e série 130:17-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13217: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Arctostraea ungulata
Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides media
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
Siderolites calcitrapoides
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida -
"Echinoconus gigas" = Galerites
"Echinoconus gigas" = Galerites sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cyrenidae
Cyrena garumnica
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonta vesicularis
Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Otostoma rugosum