Grand Morier, assemblage no. 4 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (47.3° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Late Cretaceous shark teeth reworked into Langhian to Late Tortonian deposits

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Gagnaison. 2017. Le site paléontologique du Grand Morier (Pont-Boutard, Indre-et-Loire, France): contexte géologique et détail biostratigraphique des formations cénozoïques à partir des assemblages de vertébrés fossiles. Geodiversitas 39(2):251-271 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187578: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna sp. Glikman 1958 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark