Mérigon 1, 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)

• middle-late Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; pebbly, quartzose, carbonaceous sandstone and marl

• "at the base of a very thick quartzose sandstone with small siliceous gravels, clay pebbles, and plant debris, and above a marly interbed"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Cabibel, Pouech, Ségura in 1863, 1979

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the foothills of the Pyrenees. Geology Today 1997(3-4):60-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48866: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
tooth, dentary
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet.1
Azhdarchidae indet.1 Nessov 1984 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.3
Crocodyliformes indet.3 crocodilian
tooth
 Testudines -
Pleurodira indet.2
Pleurodira indet.2 sideneck turtle
shell pieces
1Buffetaut et al. 1997; 2Laurent 2003; 3Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016