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
? Dermatemydidae indet. Baur 1888
shell fragments
    = Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811
Joyce and Bourque 2016
Reptilia - Testudines
Polysternon cf. provinciale (Matheron 1869)
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
Gaffney et al. 2006
Reptilia
Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827
Buffetaut 2005
vertebrae
Alligatoridae indet. Gray 1844
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
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
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]