Also known as Le Mas-d'Azil

Where: Aude, France (43.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès de Labarre Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, ferruginous, phosphatic, gray, white, cherty/siliceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. J. Pouech in 1859

• collected by Abbé J. J. Pouech in 1859, kept at Collège Jean XXIII, Pamiers; includes eggs as well as bones

Primary reference: A. Pouech. 1859. Mémoire sur les terrains tertiaires de l'Ariège rapportés à une coupe transversale menée de Fossat à Aillères, passant par le Mas-d'Azil, et projectée sur le méridien de ce lieu [Memoir on the Tertiary terrains of Ariège exposed along a transverse section drawn from Fossat to Aillères, passing by Mas-d'Azil, and projected onto the meridian of this site]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 16:381-411 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48862: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.04.2005

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