Massecaps locality, Cruzy: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected 1996-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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? Unionidae indet.
Rafinesque 1820
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Coelacanthimorpha
- Coelacanthiformes
- Mawsoniidae
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Mawsoniidae indet.
Schultze 1993
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Cavin et al. 2005 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
angular | ||||||||||
Axelrodichthys megadromos
Cavin et al. 2016
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Cavin et al. 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
M2253, dentary | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Tribosphenida indet.
McKenna 1975
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Buffetaut 2005 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Zhelestidae
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Labes garimondi
Pol et al. 1992
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Martin et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Right mandible fragment, M2521 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Varanidae indet.
Hardwicke and Gray 1824
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= Varanoidea indet.
Gray 1827
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Bothremydidae indet.
Baur 1891
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"close to Foxemys" | ||||||||||
= Foxemys mechinorum
Tong et al. 1998
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Gaffney et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Foxemys is the most abundant form among vertebrates from this locality, including: MC M2114– M2118, all lower jaws; MC M1734, nearly complete skull; MC M2119, a partial skull; and several lower jaws, hundreds of disarticulated and isolated plates, vertebrae, girdles and limb bones | ||||||||||
Dortoka vasconica
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
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Tong et al. 2022 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MC M1127, a right costal 1 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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= Solemys sp.
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Crocodylomorpha indet.
(Hay 1930)
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Martin and Buffetaut 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
M2401, a posterior portion of the left ramus of a mandible | ||||||||||
Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
M2496, isolated premaxilla; M1343, occipital portion of a skull | ||||||||||
Allodaposuchus sp.
Nopcsa 1928
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Buffetaut 2005 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
braincase | ||||||||||
= Allodaposuchus precedens
Nopcsa 1928
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Martin and Buffetaut 2016 | |||||||||
M1695 | ||||||||||
Acynodon iberoccitanus
Buscalioni et al. 1997
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Buffetaut 2005 | |||||||||
mandible (M260), teeth | ||||||||||
Mesosuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
invalid subgroup of Mesoeucrocodylia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
unnamed fourth type of eggshell, prismatic dinosauroid | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhabdodontidae
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Rhabdodon cf. septimanicus
Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1991
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M4 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Buffetaut 2005 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
femur | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Prismatoolithidae
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Prismatoolithus tenuis
Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
prismatic dinosauroid eggshell | ||||||||||
= cf. Prismatoolithus sp.
Zhao and Li 1993
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Garcia 2000 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Laevisoolithidae
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Laevisoolithidae indet.
Mikhailov 1991
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
ratite, ornithoid eggshell | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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= Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Variraptor sp.
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
"probably"; MC-M324, M561, M938, M228, M187, claw | ||||||||||
= Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Chanthasit and Buffetaut 2009 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Enantiornithes indet.
Walker 1981
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Martinavis cruzyensis n. gen., n. sp.
Walker et al. 2007
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Walker et al. 2007 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
ACAP-M 1957 | ||||||||||
? Pseudogeckoolithus sp.
Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez 1997
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Garcia 2000 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Buffetaut 2005 | |||||||||
"reminiscent of Ampelosaurus atacis" | ||||||||||
Megaloolithus sp.
Mikhailov 1991
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
spherulitic dinosauroid eggshell | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ampelosaurus atacis
Le Loeuff 1995
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Reptilia
- Azhdarchidae
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? Azhdarchidae indet.
Nessov 1984
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Buffetaut 2008 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Wing metacarpal; Musée de Cruzy, No. M3929, right distal syncarpal | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Amphibia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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Buffetaut et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"reminiscent of the Discoglossidae" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Languedoc-Roussillon | County: | Hérault |
Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 3.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.5° North, 3.4° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 109 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Grès à Reptiles | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Rognacian" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | ferruginous claystone |
Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "variegated clays"; "which sometimes contain iron oxide nodules, and are cut by unfossiliferous sandy channels" ‘‘The vertebrates are scattered through a thickness of about 1 m of variegated clays which sometimes contain iron oxide nodules, and are cut by unfossiliferous sandy channels. It would appear to be a floodplain deposit’’ (Buffetaut et al., 1999) | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Geology comments: "a braided river affected by flood episodes under a climate alternating dry and wet seasons" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1996- |
Metadata
Database number: | 48870 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant, R. Benson, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-01 10:18:15 | Last modified: | 2023-08-16 03:24:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-01 10:18:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13032. | ETE | E. Buffetaut. 1998. First evidence of enantiornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe: postcranial bones from Cruzy (Hérault, southern France). Oryctos 1:131-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
29712 | E. Buffetaut. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
30133 | E. Buffetaut. 2008. Late Cretaceous pterosaurs from France: a review. Zitteliana B 28:249-255 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
13039 | E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, H. Tong, S. Duffaud, L. Cavin, G. Garcia, D. Ward and l'Association Cruzy. 1999. Un nouveau gisement de vertébrés du Crétacé supérieur à Cruzy (Hérault, Sud de la France) [A new Late Cretaceous vetebrate locality at Cruzy (Hérault, southern France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:203-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
76814 | L. Cavin, E. Buffetaut, Y. Dutour, G. Garcia, J. Le Loeuff, A. Méchin, P. Méchin, H. Tong, T. Tortosa, E. Turini, and X. Valentin. 2020. The last known freshwater coelacanths: new Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from southern France. PLoS One 15(6):e0234183:1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17727 | ETE | L. Cavin, P. L. Forey, E. Buffetaut and H. Tong. 2005. Latest European coelacanth shows Gondwanan affinities. Biology Letters 1:176-177 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
29887 | P. Chanthasit and E. Buffetaut. 2009. New data on the Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of southern France. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 180(2):145-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
27976 | E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
16950 | ETE | G. Garcia. 2000. Diversité des coquilles "minces" d'oeufs fossiles du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Diversity of fossil eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 33(1):113-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |
52039 | J. D. Gardner and M. Böhme. 2008. Review of the Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia), with comments on the paleoecological preferences of European Tertiary albanerpetontids. In J. T. Sankey & S. Baszio (ed.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 178-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
80599 | E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [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] | |
36728 | ETE | 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] |
81393 | J. E. Martin and E. Buffetaut. 2016. An overview of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian assemblage from Cruzy, southern France. Current Research in Vertebrate Palaeontolgy. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Kaupia 14:33-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
50887 | T. Martin, E. Buffetaut, and H. Tong. 2015. A Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal from southwestern France. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89(3):535-544 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] | |
17194 | ETE | M. G. Pincemaille-Quillevere, E. Buffetaut, and F. Quillevere. 2006. Description ostéologique de l'arrière-crâne de Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Euornithopoda) et implications phylogénetiques [Osteological description of the braincase of Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Euornithopoda) and phylogenetic implications]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 177(2):97-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
75349 | A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion] | |
83297 | H. Tong, E. Buffetaut, and J. Claude. 2022. Dortokid turtle remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Cruzy (Hérault, southern France) and phylogenetic implications. Palaeovertebrata 45(2):e3:1-7 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] | |
55429 | B. Vila, A. Galobart, J. I. Canudo, J. Le Loeuff, J. Dinarès-Turell, V. Riera, O. Oms, T. Tortosa, and R. Gaete. 2012. The diversity of sauropod dinosaurs and their first taxonomic succession from the latest Cretaceous of southwestern Europe: Clues to demise and extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352:19-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
25461 | ETE | C. A. Walker, E. Buffetaut, and G. J. Dyke. 2007. Large euenantiornithine birds from the Cretaceous of southern France, North America and Argentina. Geological Magazine 144(6):977-986 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion] |