North of Montséret, east Corbières, "Le Pech Blanc": Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected by M. Jean-Marie Marserou
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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? Dermatemydidae indet.
Baur 1888
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shell fragments | ||||||||||
= Testudinata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Joyce and Bourque 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Polysternon cf. provinciale
(Matheron 1869)
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one nuchal, left peripherals 1 and 2, from the same individual, one right perhipheral 2, a right peripheral 11 (or 9?), a partial neural 2 or 3, a right piece of the anterior part of a plastron, a fragment of xiphiplastron, dozens of shell fragments | ||||||||||
= Polysternon provinciale
Matheron 1869
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Gaffney et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Varanoidea indet.
Gray 1827
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Buffetaut 2005 | |||||||||
vertebrae | ||||||||||
Alligatoridae indet.
Gray 1844
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rare, small bulbous teeth obtained by sieving, similar to small Cretaceous 'allogatorides' from, for example, Provence. Also, the distal end of a crocodilian femur | ||||||||||
= Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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lanceolate teeth obtained by sieving | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Languedoc-Roussillon | County: | Aude |
Coordinates: | 43.1° North, 2.8° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 3.3° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: clay layers of greyish Late Cretaceous | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collectors: | M. Jean-Marie Marserou |
Metadata
Also known as: | Monseret; Monséret | ||
Database number: | 88584 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-04-15 08:42:35 | Last modified: | 2023-11-13 15:23:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-15 08:42:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
42158. | H. Tong, E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, and V. Martin. 1993. Decouverte de restes de vertebres dans le Cretace Superieur de Monseret (Corbieres Orientales, Aude). Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Scientifiques de l'Aude 93:161-164 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |
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] | |
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] | |
63442 | W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque. 2016. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Kinosternoidea. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57(1):57-95 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
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] |