Calcaire à Spatangues explained

Calcaire à Spatangues
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Hauterivian
Period:	Hauterivian
Region:	Europe

The Calcaire à Spatangues (French for: "limestone with Spatangus") is a geological formation in the Paris basin of northern central France whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

• Mantellisaurus^[1]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 556-563. .