Also known as Monseret; Monséret
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.1° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 3.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Jean-Marie Marserou
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: H. Tong, E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, and V. Martin. 1993. Decouverte de restes de vertebres dans le Cretace Superieur de Monseret (Corbieres Orientales, Aude). Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Scientifiques de l'Aude 93:161-164 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88584: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eusuchia indet.4 Huxley 1875 crocodilian rare, small bulbous teeth obtained by sieving, similar to small Cretaceous 'allogatorides' from, for example, Provence. Also, the distal end of a crocodilian femur
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Polysternon provinciale2 Matheron 1869 sideneck turtle one nuchal, left peripherals 1 and 2, from the same individual, one right perhipheral 2, a right peripheral 11 (or 9?), a partial neural 2 or 3, a right piece of the anterior part of a plastron, a fragment of xiphiplastron, dozens of shell fragments
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