Coteau de Douce Amie, Le Mans: Middle Cenomanian, France
collected by E. Guéranger 1851

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Buffetaut 1989 1 specimen
caudal vertebra
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Le Loeuff 1993
    = Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995
Mocho et al. 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Pays de la Loire County:Sarthe
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° North, 2.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:49 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: Acanthoceras jukesbrownei
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sables du Perche
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: top of middle Cenomanian, Acanthoceras jukesbrownei zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,green sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "greensand...coarse sandy layers and clayey beds"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: "a terrigenous formation deposited in shallow water on the Armorican margin"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:E. Guéranger Collection dates:1851
Collection method comments: collected 1851 by Gueranger, collection at Université de Le Mans
Metadata
Database number:48860
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-01 05:58:12 Last modified:2013-03-15 11:02:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-01 05:58:12
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:

28700ETE E. Buffetaut. 1989. Une vertèbre de Dinosaure Titanosauridé dans le Cénomanien du Mans et ses implications paléobiogéographiques [A titanosaurid dinosaur vertebra in the Cenomanian of Le Mans and its paleobiogeographic implications]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 309:437-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45554 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47162 E. Buffetaut and D. Pouit. 1994. Restes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans le Crétacé supérieur du Centre-Ouest de la France [Dinosaur and crocodilian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of west-central France]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 319:253-259 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67195 P. Mocho, A. Pérez-García, M. Martín Jiménez and F. Ortega. 2019. New remains from the Spanish Cenomanian shed light on the Gondwanan origin of European Early Cretaceous titanosaurs. Cretaceous Research 95:164-190 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]