Les Mosasaures (Squamata)du Crétacé supérieur du Bassin basco-cantabrique

Bardet, Nathalie; Corral, José Carmelo; Suberbiola, Xabier Fereda

doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(97)80005-8

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“…At least five distinct taxa have been recognized on the basis of tooth features: Mosasaurus hoffmanni, Mosasaurus sp., Prognathodon sectorius, Prognathodon solvayi, Prognathodon sp., and Platecarpus cf. ictericus (Bardet et al, 1997(Bardet et al, , 1999(Bardet et al, , 2013. As in other latest Cretaceous mosasaurid associations, Mosasaurinae taxa are dominant relative to Russellosaurina ones.…”

Section: Mosasauridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

Suberbiola

Corral²,

Astibia

et al. 2015

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The vertebrate-bearing beds of the Laño quarry (Condado de Treviño) are among the most relevant sites from the Late Cretaceous of Europe. Geologically, Laño and the adjacent region are set on the southern limb of the South-Cantabrian Synclinorium (SE Basque-Cantabrian Region, northern Iberian Peninsula). The Laño sites were discovered in 1984; thousands of bones and teeth, including microfossils, have been collected during the prospection in the field and excavation campaigns. The vertebrate remains occur at two different stratigraphic horizons within a continental to shallow marine succession of Late Campanian-Maastrichtian age. The lower horizon contains the Laño 1 and Laño 2 sites, whereas the upper horizon contains the Albaina site. In the Laño sites, three fossiliferous beds (called L1A, L1B and L2) are known within an alluvial system composed mainly of fluvial sands and silts. The sedimentary structures are consistent with channel areas within an extensive braided river system. Based mainly on stratigraphic correlations, the fluvial beds of Laño are regarded as Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian in age. These deposits have yielded a very diverse vertebrate assemblage, which consists of nearly 40 species, including actinopterygians, lissamphibians, lepidosaurs, turtles, crocodyliforms, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and mammals. Seven genera and ten species have been erected to date in Laño. With reference to the marine vertebrate association of Albaina, it consists of at least 37 species, including sharks and rays, actinopterygians, mosasaurids, and plesiosaurs. Two genera and species of rhinobatoids (family indet.) and two new species of rhinobatids have been erected in Albaina. The fossil association indicates a Late (but not latest) Maastrichtian age. Recently, isolated turtle and dinosaur fossils have been discovered in the sublittoral beds of Albaina. The Laño quarry is one of the most noteworthy Campanian-Maastrichtian vertebrate localities of Europe by its taxonomic diversity, and provides useful information about the composition and affinities of both continental and marine vertebrate faunas from the latest Cretaceous of southwestern Europe.

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Section: Mosasauridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

Suberbiola

Corral²,

Astibia

et al. 2015

Journal of Iberian Geology

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“…The labial face bears seven facets and the lingual face about twelve, as in M. lemonnieri (LinghamSoliar, 1994a). This species has been found in the Campanian deposits of the Basque Country (Bardet, Corral & Pereda Suberbiola, 1997) and in the Maastrichtian of Belgium (Dollo, 1889) and Congo (Lingham-Soliar, 1994a).…”

Section: C Squamatesmentioning

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The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria

et al. 2000

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Marine vertebrate faunas from the latest Cretaceous phosphates of the Palmyrides Chain of Syria are described for the first time. Recent fieldwork in the phosphatic deposits of the Palmyra area (mines of Charquieh and Khneifiss, outcrops of Bardeh, Soukkari and Soukhneh) have yielded a rich and diversified assemblage of marine vertebrates, including more than 50 species of chondrichthyes, osteichthyes, squamates, chelonians, plesiosaurians and crocodilians. Selachians are the most abundant and diverse component of the faunas and are represented by at least 34 species of both sharks and rays. Actinopterygians include representatives of six families, the most common being the enchodontids. Squamates are known by six mosasaurid species and an indeterminate varanoid. Chelonians are represented by at least two bothremydids and two chelonioids. Finally, elasmosaurid plesiosaurs and indeterminate crocodilians are also present in the fossil assemblages. The difference in faunal composition observed between the sites is interpreted as being due to palaeoecological preferences related to the Hamad Uplift palaeostructure. The marine vertebrate faunas of Syria show close affinities with those of the latest Cretaceous phosphatic deposits of North Africa and the Middle East and are typical of the southern Tethyan realm. From a biostratigraphical point of view, the selachians are the only suitable material to provide elements of an answer to the long debated question of the age of the Syrian Senonian phosphates. They suggest an Early Maastrichtian age for most of the phosphates of the Palmyrides Chain.

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“…mosasaurine and plioplatecarpine mosasaurids) and one identifiable genus: the ubiquitous mosasaurine Prognathodon. This pandemic taxon has been described from CampanianMaastrichtian strata in New Zealand (Welles & Gregg, 1971;Wiffen, 1990), Europe (Lingham-Soliar & Nolf, 1989;Dortangs et al 2002;Bardet, Corral & Pereda Suberbiola, 1997;Lindgren, 2004), North America (Russell, 1967) and Africa (LinghamSoliar, 1994;Bardet et al 2005a), and is abundant in the Late Cretaceous deposits of the Middle East (Bardet et al 2000;Bardet & Pereda Suberbiola, 2002;Christiansen & Bonde, 2002).…”

Section: Palaeobiogeographical Implications Of the Assemblagementioning

confidence: 93%

Late Cretaceous (Campanian—Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia

et al. 2008

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Marine reptile remains occur in the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian to lower Maastrichtian) Adaffa Formation of NW Saudi Arabia. This is the first detailed report of late Mesozoic marine reptiles from the Arabian Peninsula. The fossils include bothremydid (cf. Taphrosphyini) turtles, dyrosaurid crocodyliforms, elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, mosasaurs (Prognathodon, plioplatecarpines) and an indeterminate small varanoid. The assemblage is compositionally similar to contemporary faunas from elsewhere in the Middle East/North Africa, and comprises taxa that are typical of the southern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys.

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Les Mosasaures (Squamata)du Crétacé supérieur du Bassin basco-cantabrique

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria

Late Cretaceous (Campanian—Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia

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