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]