ammonites
Maison Varin, Dreuilhe (Cretaceous to of France)

Also known as Gabre, Lavelanet

Where: Midi-Pyrénées, France (42.9° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 3.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes d'En Gauly Member (Grès de Labarre Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)

• upper part of stratum; near the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; blue marl and ferruginous, micaceous, red, carbonaceous sandstone

• "continental...poorly drained, of swampy type"
• "blue marls (10 m) giving way in places to thin decimeter-scale intercalations of red sandstones, micaceous and lignitic, and limonitic nodular zones."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by Taquet; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. Villatte, P. Taquet, and M. Bilotte. 1986. Nouveaux restes de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé terminal de l'anticlinal de Dreuilhe. État des connaissances dans le domaine sous-pyrénéen [New dinosaur remains in the terminal Cretaceous of the Dreuilhe Anticline. State of knowledge in the sub-Pyrennean domain]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 89-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91037: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.09.2009

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