Where: Aude, France (43.3° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 3.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)
• "Rognacian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; ferruginous claystone and sandstone
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•‘‘The vertebrates are scattered through a thickness of about 1 m of variegated clays which sometimes contain iron oxide nodules, and are cut by unfossiliferous sandy channels. It would appear to be a floodplain deposit’’ (Buffetaut et al., 1999)
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1996-
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1998. First evidence of enantiornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe: postcranial bones from Cruzy (Hérault, southern France). Oryctos 1:131-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 48870: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Roger Benson