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Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation
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The Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation found in the French Pyrenees. It predominantly consists of red mustone, with minor brown mudstone and sandstone.[1] Dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs and avialian stem-birds have been reported from the formation.[2]
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Fossil content
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
[edit]Ornithischians
[edit]| Ornithischians of Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Rhabdodon | R. priscus | A rhabdodontid ornithopod | ||||
Sauropods
[edit]| Sauropods of the Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Ampelosaurus | A. atacis | A lirainosaurine lithostrotian | ||||
| Lirainosaurus | L. astibiae | A lirainosaurine lithostrotian | ||||
Theropods
[edit]| Theropods of the Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Gargantuavis | G. philoinos | A gargantuaviid avialan | ||||
Crocodilians
[edit]| Crocodilia of the Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Allodaposuchus | A. precedens | A allodaposuchid eusuchian | ||||
Turtles
[edit]| Turtles of the Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Foxemys | F. mechinorum | A bothremydid side-necked turtles | ||||
See also
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Fondevilla, Víctor; Dinarès-Turell, Jaume; Vila, Bernat; Le Loeuff, Jean; Estrada, Rita; Oms, Oriol; Galobart, Àngel (2016), "Magnetostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian continental record in the Upper Aude Valley (northern Pyrenees, France): Placing age constraints on the succession of dinosaur-bearing sites", Cretaceous Research, 57: 457–472, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.009
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
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