Le Jadet Quarry (upper): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France
collected 1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arctostraea ungulata
Reptilia
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 individual
MNHN uncat. (L dentary fragment)
    = Orthomerus sp. Seeley 1883
Villatte et al. 1986
    = Telmatosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1903
Le Loeuff et al. 1993
    = Hadrosauroidea indet. Huene 1954
Dalla Vecchia 2014
Eusuchia indet. (Huxley 1875)
Laurent 2003 1 specimen
vertebra
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus cf. faujasi (Agassiz 1843)
Laurent 2003 1 specimen
dentary fragment; MDE-Sm1-01
Echinoidea - Holectypoida
Echinoconus gigas
synonym of Galerites
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Dipsacaster jadeti Breton et al. 1995
Laurent et al. 2001
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Alectryonia larva (Lamarck 1819)
Laurent et al. 2001
synonym of Agerostrea ungulatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra pyrenaica Leymerie 1851
recombined as Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaicum
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Otostoma rugosum
Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides socialis
unclassified
Simplorbites gensacicus
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Haute-Garonne
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 0.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Middle Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ausseing Formation:Calcarenites du Jadet
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned to Lestaillats Marls/Marnes de Lestaillats and Calcaire Nankin 2
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,yellow argillaceous,sandy grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The "nankin limestone" which is exploited here constitutes a bed characteristic of the Upper Cretaceous of the Petits Pyrénées. It is a limestone of reddish tint, sometimes rose, slightly sandy." (French translated by M. Carrano). Bed is ochre-colored sandy calcarenites associated with soft clay pebbles"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: "The emergent terrains of this epoch extended markedly more to the west of this locality, while the Upper Cretaceous continental is present a dozen kilometers to the east of the quarry where the piece we described was found." "Shallow marine, possibly estuarine" (Buffetaut et al. 1991)
(French translated by M. Carrano.)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Articulated whole bodies:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1971
Metadata
Also known as:Saint-Martory
Database number:13218
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-01-29 13:16:36 Last modified:2017-07-14 14:15:42
Access level:the public Released:2002-01-29 13:16:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4388.5% 35880J. -P. Paris and P. Taquet. 1973. Découverte d'un fragment de dentaire d'Hadrosaurien (Reptile Dinosaurien) dans le Crétacé supérieur des Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne) [Discovery of a fragment of dentary from a hadrosaurian (dinosaurian reptile) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Petites Pyrénées (Haute-Garonne)]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3e série 130:17-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45554 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]
13042ETE E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, S. Duffaud, E. Gheerbrant, Y. Laurent, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, H. Tong and D. Vasse. 1997. Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: a review of recent finds. Géobios 20:101-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
12506ETE J. E. Company, A. Galobart, and R. Gaete. 1998. First data on the hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain. Oryctos 1:121-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60341 P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 368-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56237 Y. Laurent. 2003. Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]. Strata, Série 2 41:1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59044 Y. Laurent, J. Le Loeuff, M. Bilotte, E. Buffetaut, and G. S. Odin. 2001. Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France). In G. S. Odin (ed.), The Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:657-674 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7843ETE J. Le Loeuff, E. Buffetaut, M. Martin, V. Martin, and H. Tong. 1993. Découverte d'Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) dans le Maastrichtian des Corbières (Aude, France) [Discovery of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) in the Maastrichtian of Corbières (Aude, France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Série II 316:1023-1029 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30636ETE J. Villatte, P. Taquet, and M. Bilotte. 1986. Nouveaux restes de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé terminal de l'anticlinal de Dreuilhe. État des connaissances dans le domaine sous-pyrénéen [New dinosaur remains in the terminal Cretaceous of the Dreuilhe Anticline. State of knowledge in the sub-Pyrennean domain]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 89-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]