ammonites
La Bordette, Vignevielle (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Candelières

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.0° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red marl and white marl

• "red marls with dinosaur eggshell debris separated by a bank of red sands from clearer marls with white chalky passages"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Bessière, Y. Tambareau, and J. Villatte. 1980. Le passage Crétacé-Tertiaire dans les Hautes Corbières [The Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the Hautes Corbières]. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 116(3-4):283-303 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91188: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 10.09.2009