Meudon [Craie de Meudon]: Late/Upper Campanian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Holasteroida
- Holasteridae
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Echinocorys sp.
Leske 1778
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Metopaster parkinsoni
(Forbes 1848)
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Metopaster meudonensis
(Cottreau 1937)
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Crateraster quinqueloba
(Goldfuss 1833)
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Calliderma sp.
Gray 1847
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Nymphaster alseni
(Schulz and Weitschat 1971)
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Nymphaster studlandensis
(Schulz and Weitschat 1975)
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Hainosaurus sp.
Dollo 1885
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Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN 1892-11 (tooth); MNHN 1897-15 (undescribed teeth); MNHN 8711 (tooth) | ||||||||||
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Liodon anceps
(Owen 1841)
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Gaudry 1892 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Leiodon anceps | ||||||||||
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Mosasaurus camperi
Meyer 1832
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Gervais 1859 | |||||||||
| synonym of Mosasaurus hoffmannii | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Onchosaurus radicalis n. gen., n. sp.
Gervais 1852
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Gervais 1852 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
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Selachii indet.
()
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Thecostraca
- Calanticomorpha
- Cretiscalpellidae
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Cretiscalpellum striatum
(Darwin 1851)
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Carriol and Collins 2000 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | France | County: | Ile de France |
| Coordinates: | 48.8° North, 2.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.6° North, 3.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Craie de Meudon |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation poorly lithified silty wackestone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | offshore shelf | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
| Geology comments: Chalk | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Multiple collections, perhaps including B. Mathieu, 1990's. REPOSITORY: Laboratoire de Paleontologie, Mueum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 59676 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier, A. Hendy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, M. Uhen | Enterer: | L. Villier, M. Uhen, A. Hendy, J. Tennant, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-04-07 00:23:50 | Last modified: | 2020-09-25 15:05:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-07 00:23:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17061. | G. Breton. 1992. Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre, numéro hors série 78:1-590 [L. Villier/L. Villier] |
Secondary references:
| 46107 | N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 52281 | R.-P. Carriol and J. S. H. Collins. 2000. New records of cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Albian of Yonne (France). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (27)141-145 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 73878 | A. Gaudry. 1892. Les pythonomorphes de France. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie 10:1-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 28567 | P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
| 12784 | P. Gervais. 1859. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés dont on Trouve les Ossements Enfouis dans le Sol de la France et sur leur Comparaison aves les Espèces Propres aux Autres Régions du Globe (Deuxième Edition) [French Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Vertebrate Animals Whose Bones Are Found Buried in the Soil of France and their Comparison with Species Specific to Other Regions of the Globe (Second Edition)] 544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] |