Notre-Dame-de-Riez (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Ligneron

Where: Pays de la Loire, France (46.7° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• "lignite-bearing clayey–sandy deposits"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandy claystone and lignite

• "shallow marine"
• "sandy clays with lignite levels"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67998: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.12.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchosaurus sp.1 Gervais 1852 ray
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata -
 Dinosauria -
? Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
teeth