La Buzinie roadworks, Champniers (B2): Early/Lower Cenomanian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| MA BZN 5, 6 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| MA BZN 3, 4, 8 | ||||||||||
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? Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Reptilia
- Carcharodontosauridae
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Carcharodontosauridae indet.
Stromer 1931
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| MA BZN 1, 2 | ||||||||||
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? Carcharodontosauridae indet.
Stromer 1931
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Reptilia
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? Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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= Macronaria indet.
Sereno 1997
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Mannion et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Brachiosauridae indet.
Riggs 1904
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Vullo and Néraudeau 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MA BZN 9 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Solemydidae indet.
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
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Vullo et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| Shell fragments | ||||||||||
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= Helochelys danubina
von Meyer 1854
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Joyce 2017 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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? Carettochelyidae indet.
Gill 1889
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Vullo et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| A few shell fragments | ||||||||||
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= Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Joyce 2014 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Dortokidae
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Dortokidae indet.
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
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Vullo et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| Incomplete specimen | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dolichosauridae
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? Dolichosauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Vullo et al. 2011 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MA BZN 7 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Simoliophiidae
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Simoliophis rochebrunei
Sauvage 1880
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Rage et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| MA BZN 10-49, vertebrae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Poitou-Charentes | County: | Charente |
| Coordinates: | 45.7° North, 0.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.5° North, 1.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: B2gl subunit | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | paralic indet. |
| Geology comments: detrital paralic environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Angoulême | ||
| Database number: | 77231 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Barrett, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, T. Cleary, J. Tennant, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-01-04 14:16:59 | Last modified: | 2019-10-28 16:03:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-04 14:16:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26151. | ETE | R. Vullo, D. Neraudeau, and T. Lenglet. 2007. Dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian of Charentes, western France: evidence for a mixed Laurasian-Gondwanan assemblage. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):931-943 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 63405 | W. G. Joyce. 2014. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55(1):3-33 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 62124 | W. G. Joyce. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):65-113 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion] | |
| 46153 | P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 58201 | J.-C. Rage, R. Vullo, and D. Néraudeau. 2016. The mid-Cretaceous snake Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage, 1880 (Squamata: Ophidia) from its type area (Charentes, southwestern France): Redescription, distribution, and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research 58:234-253 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/P. Mannion] | |
| 46358 | R. Vullo, F. de Lapparent de Broin, D. Nerudeau and N. Durrieu. 2010. Turtles from the Early Cenomanian paralic deposits (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, France. Oryctos 9:37-48 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 70675 | R. Vullo and D. Néraudeau. 2010. Additional dinosaur teeth from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, southwestern France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9(3):121-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 36357 | ETE | R. Vullo, J.-C. Rage, and D. Neraudeau. 2011. Anuran and squamate remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, western France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):279-291 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |