Lafarge quarry, Lestaillats 1: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France
collected by Y. Laurent 1993, 1994, 1997

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
? Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)
Laurent et al. 1999 3 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Phyllodontidae indet. Sauvage 1875
Laurent et al. 1999 2 elements
plus additional unnumbered specimens
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Laurent et al. 1999 1 element
plus additional unnumbered specimens
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Laurent et al. 1999 1 specimen
MDE-Les-76
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1997 3 specimens
MDE-Les-9, 68, 69
    = Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Laurent et al. 1999
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
16 specimens
MDE-Les-4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 73
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Laurent et al. 1999 20 specimens
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1997 12 specimens
    = Pleurodira indet. Cope 1865
Laurent et al. 1999
Chondrichthyes
Neoselachii indet. Compagno 1977
Laurent et al. 1999
"shark" teeth
    = "Selachii" indet.
Laurent 2003
Gastropoda - Pachychilidae
Melanatria stillans
Laurent et al. 2001
Gastropoda - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis avellana
Laurent et al. 2001
Gastropoda - Potamididae
"Potamides" figolinum
Laurent et al. 2001
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
"Cerithium" costulatum
Laurent et al. 2001
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cyrenidae
"Cyrena" garumnica
Laurent et al. 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Haute-Garonne
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 1.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:290 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 de Lestaillats
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: also referred to as the "Marnes d'Auzas"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,black,gray carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "from a thick series (20 m) of gray to black marls, rich in organic materials, strongly bioturbated and remakable for the superabundance of whole lamellibranch shells..."
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: "estuarine mudstones"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Y. Laurent Collection dates:1993, 1994, 1997
Metadata
Also known as:Roquefort-sur-Garonne, Mauran
Database number:48865
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-01 07:05:45 Last modified:2021-04-15 15:23:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-01 07:05:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19451.ETE E. Buffetaut. 1994. The significance of dinosaur remains in marine sediments: an investigation based on the French record. In R. Kohring & T. Martin (eds.), Miscellanea Palaeontologica 3: Festschrift Bernard Krebs. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen, Reihe E 13:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13026ETE E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the foothills of the Pyrenees. Geology Today 1997(3-4):60-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
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]
73885 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2020. The unusual tail of Tethyshadros insularis (Dinosauria, Hadrosauroidea) from the Adriatic Island of the European archipelago. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(3):583-628 [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]
19174ETE Y. Laurent, L. Cavin, and M. Bilotte. 1999. Découverte d'un gisement à vertébrés dans le Maastrichtien supérieur des Petites-Pyrénées [Discovery of a vertebrate locality in the upper Maastrichtian of the Petites-Pyrenees]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 628:781-787 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76456 Y. Laurent, L. Cavin, and M. Bilotte. 1999. A new late Maastrichtian vertebrate locality in the French Petites-Pyrénées. In J. I. Canudo & G. Cuenca-Bescós (ed.), IV European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology. Programme and Abstracts. Field Guide 73 [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]
36728ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]