Montplô Nord, Cruzy (Cretaceous to of France)

Also known as Montplô-Nord

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.3° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red marl and sandstone

• floodplain environment; "a braided river affected by flood episodes under a climate alternating dry and wet seasons"
• Continental red marls interbedded with sandstone lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.-C. Guilhaumon in 1996

Collection methods: mechanical,

• discovered by Jean-Claude Guilhaumon

Primary reference: R. Fléaux. 1999. La terreur du crétacé [The terror of the Cretaceous]. Sciences et Avenir May 1999:46-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2006, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 clam
freshwater bivalves
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.1 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp.4 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
MN25
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
Aves
 Ornithurae - Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuavis philoinos1 Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998 bird
MC-MN478 (cervical vertebra), MC-MN 1335 (femur)
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
femur
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet.2 Nessov 1984 pterosaur
cervical vertebra
 Loricata -
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Foxemys mechinorum3 Tong et al. 1998 sideneck turtle
MC uncataloged, shell
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.1 Cuvier 1825 gar