UPPER MAASTRICHTIAN AMMONITES FROM THE MARNES-DE-NAY BETWEEN GAN AND REBENACQ (PYRENEES-ATLANTIQUES), FRANCE

The Marnes de Nay are the highest unit in the Maastrichtian succession in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques to the south-east and south-west of Pau. An Upper Maastrichtian ammonite fauna from quarries north of Rebenacq is referred to a Menuites fresvillensis Zone, equivalent to a part of the Abathomphalus mayaroensis planktonic foraminiferan Zone, with Pseu dophyllites indra (FORBES, 1846), Desmophyllites larteti (SEUNES, 1892 ), Brahmaites (Anabrahmaites) vishnu (FORBES, 1846), Pachydiscus (Pach ydiscus) armenicus ATABEKIAN & AKOPIAN, 1969, P. (P.) jacquoti jacquot i SEUNES, 1890a, Menuites fresvillensis (SEUNES, 1890a), Glyptoxoceras indicum (FORBES, 1846), and G. rugatum (FORBES, 1846).