A new Late Cretaceous vertebrate locality at Cruzy (Herault, southern France)

Authors
Buffetaut, E Le Loeuff, J Tong, HY Duffaud, S Cavin, L Garcia, G Ward, D
Citation
E. Buffetaut et al., A new Late Cretaceous vertebrate locality at Cruzy (Herault, southern France), CR AC S IIA, 328(3), 1999, pp. 203-208
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE II FASCICULE A-SCIENCES DELA TERRE ET DES PLANETES
ISSN journal
12518050 → ACNP
Volume
328
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
203 - 208
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(199902)328:3<203:ANLCVL>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A new locality of Late Cretaceous (probably Early Maastrichtian) age near C ruzy (Herault, southern France) has yielded a varied vertebrate assemblage consisting of lepisosteid fish, albanerpetontid and anuran amphibians, pleu rodiran and cryptodiran turtles, squamates (including varanoids), mesosuchi an and eusuchian crocodilians, dinosaurs (abelisaurids, dromaeosaurids, tic anosaurids and Rhabdodon) and enantiornithine birds. This fauna provides ne w evidence about the composition of Late Cretaceous European ecosystems. (C ) Academie des sciences / Elsevier, Paris.