Cassagnau 2: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France
collected by Musée des Dinosaures

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Laffiteina mengaudi
Laurent et al. 2002
Calcarinidae
Siderolites calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801
Laurent et al. 2002
unclassified
Hellenocyclina beotica Reichel 1949
Laurent et al. 2002
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Laurent et al. 2002
teeth
cf. Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Laurent 2003
Reptilia
Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827
Laurent et al. 2002 1 specimen
MDE-Cas2-124 (vertebra)
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Laurent et al. 2002 4 specimens
Teeth, MDE-Cas2-28 to 28; MDE-Cas2-25 (metacarpal)
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Laurent et al. 2002 3 specimens
MDE-Cas2-26, 27 (two teeth) and MDE-Cas2-25 (metapodial)
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 individual
    = Euhadrosauria indet. Weishampel et al. 1993
Laurent et al. 2002
MDE-Cas2 - Partial articulated skeleton of young individual: 7 cervical vertebrae, 2 femora, 1 tibia, 2 fibulae, 3 metatarsals & 3 phalanges. A dentary, a predentary and many other bones were also discovered
    = Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Prieto-Marquez et al. 2013
Reptilia
? Musturzabalsuchus sp. Buscalioni et al. 1997
Laurent 2003
teeth; MDE-Cas2-231
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Eusuchia indet. (Huxley 1875)
Laurent 2003 5 specimens
vertebrae; MDE-Cas2-31, 32, 202, 218, 229
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Laurent 2003 6 specimens
MDE-Cas2-30, 51, 141, 224, 263, 264
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Thoracosaurus neocesariensis (De Kay 1842)
Laurent 2003 4 specimens
MDE-Cas2-33, 35, 126, 202
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Testudines
Pleurodira indet. (Cope 1865)
Laurent 2003
Elochelys sp. Nopsca 1931
Laurent et al. 2002 1 individual
MDE-Cas2-259 (complete carapace)
    = Elochelys convenarum n. sp. Laurent et al. 2002
Laurent et al. 2002
synonym of Iberoccitanemys atlanticum
? Foxemys sp. Tong et al. 1998
Laurent 2003 1 individual
epiplastron & entoplastron; MDE-Cas2-212
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Haute-Garonne
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 1.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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: 15 m above Cassagnau 1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:intraclastic calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "lenticular: they are sandstones with calcareous cement rich in intraclasts and large clasts alternating with limonitic marls"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Musée des Dinosaures
Metadata
Database number:67196
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-13 10:25:10 Last modified:2022-03-08 15:04:56
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-13 10:25:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12506.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

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]
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]
38063 Y. Laurent, M. Bilotte, and J. Le Loeuff. 2002. Late Maastrichtian continental vertebrates from southwestern France: correlation with marine fauna. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 187:121-135 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
38065 Y. Laurent, H. Tong, and J. Claude. 2002. New side-necked turtle (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Maastrichtian of the Petites-Pyrenees (Haute-Garonne, France). Cretaceous Research 23:465-471 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
47749 A. Prieto-Marquez, F. M. D. Vecchia, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2013. Diversity, relationships, and biogeography of the lambeosaurine dinosaurs from the European archipelago, with description of the new aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis. PLoS One 8(7):e69835:1-44 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/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]