Mérigon 2, Ariège (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes d'Auzas Formation (Ausseing Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• top of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; carbonaceous claystone

• "a thin bed of lignitic clay"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Rocchia

Primary reference: Y. Laurent. 2003. Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]. Strata, Série 2 41:1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 172948: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
cf. Pycnodus sp.
cf. Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
teeth