Late Maastrichtian continental vertebrates from southwestern France: correlation with marine fauna

The Molí del Baró-1 site, a diverse fossil assemblage from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the southern Pyrenees (north-eastern Iberia)

“…The upper Maastrichtian locality of Cassagnau, in southern France, is also among the most diverse in Europe (Laurent et al, 2002). There, two rich vertebrate sites situated in a transition zone between paralic and limnic deposits were reported by these authors.…”

“…The scales resemble those of extant Percoidea and are tentatively assigned to indeterminate Percomorpha. Remains of the ginglymodian genera Lepisosteus and Lepidotes are commonly recovered from the uppermost Cretaceous localities around the Tethys Ocean (Grigorescu et al, 1999;Laurent et al, 2002;Cuny et al, 2010a, b;Blanco and Bolet, 2014). These genera bear ganoid scales (Grigorescu et al, 1999;Fanti et al, 2012), unlike Teleostomi, which are not found in the sample under description.…”

“…Chelonians and squamates are found in the French locality, unlike the Molí del Bar o-1. Crocodylomorphs are diverse in Cassagnau as in the Iberian localities, represented by the longirostrine Thoracosaurus neocesariensis Kay 1833, the genus Musturzabalsuchus Buscalioni et al, 1997 and many other remains referred to indeterminate crocodylomorphs (Laurent et al, 2002). However, Thoracosaurus Leidy 1852 and Musturzabalsuchus are lacking in the crocodylomorph sample from Molí del Bar o-1.…”

Maastrichtian−basal Paleocene charophyte biozonation and its calibration to the Global Polarity Time Scale in the southern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain)

“…This species is very common in the Campanian of Rognac in Provence, and in Languedoc, France (Grambast, 1971). It has also been found in the Marnes d'Auzas, Plantaurel and HauteseCorbi eres in the North Pyrenean basins (Tambareau et al, 1997;Laurent et al, 2002). In Spain, P. cancellata has been found in the Maastrichtian of Calder on (Cuenca), in the southwestern Iberian chain (Grambast, 1975), and in the lowermost Maastrichtian of the South Pyrenean basins of Vallcebre and Ager (Feist and Colombo, 1983;M edus et al, 1988;Ullastre, 1988, 1990;Galbrun et al, 1993;Villalba-Breva et al, 2012;Martín-Closas, 2011, 2013).…”

The biota of the Upper Cretaceous site of “Lo Hueco” (Cuenca, Spain)

“…and Lacertilia indet.) (Buffetaut et al, 1996(Buffetaut et al, , 1999Sigé et al, 1997;Garcia et al, 1999Garcia et al, , 2000Laurent et al, 2002b).…”