Geological formation in Occitania, France
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] dinosaur eggs and avialian stem-birds have been reported from the formation.[ 2]
Fossil content
Color key
Notes small text ; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Dinosaurs
Ornithischians
Sauropods
Theropods
Crocodilians
Turtles
Fish
Lobe-finned Fish
See also
References
^ Fondevilla et al., 2016
^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
Bibliography
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 1– 880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 , retrieved 2019-02-21 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link )