Mérigon 2, Ariège: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France
collected by Rocchia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
|
||||||||||
cf. Pycnodus sp.
Agassiz 1833
|
||||||||||
teeth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | County: | Var |
Coordinates: | 43.1° North, 1.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 1.1° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 453 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Ausseing | Formation: | Marnes d'Auzas | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: top of formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | carbonaceous claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a thin bed of lignitic clay" | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collectors: | Rocchia |
Metadata
Database number: | 172948 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2015-09-03 13:51:05 | Last modified: | 2015-09-03 13:51:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-09-03 13:51:05 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |