Non-rudist infralittoral bivalves from the Urgonian-type carbonate platforms of southeast France and the neighbouring regions: biodiversity, palaeoecological …

JP Masse, C Frau, F Aubert, D Gesbert - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This contribution provides new insights on the taxonomic composition, diversity and
ecological aspects of the poorly explored non-rudist Barremian bivalves occurring in the …

Revising the timing and causes of the Urgonian rudistid-platform demise in the Mediterranean Tethys

C Frau, AJB Tendil, A Pohl, C Lanteaume - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
The widespread demise of the Urgonian rudistid-platform ecosystem in the Mediterranean
Tethys was so far considered as a progressive phenomenon starting at the Barremian …

Evidence for three successive upper Barremian–lower Aptian rudist faunas in the Urgonian-type deposits of southeastern France and their stratigraphic value

JP Masse, C Frau, AJB Tendil, M Fenerci-Masse - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The stratigraphic reappraisal of the Urgonian-type carbonate platform series of southeastern
France, based on new ammonite discoveries, supports a precise dating of the Brouzet-les …

Diversity dynamics, trophic, community and environmental changes in early cretaceous rudist bivalves (Hippuritida): New insights on the late Barremian “Agriopleura …

JP Masse, M Fenerci-Masse - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The “Agriopleura event”, which expresses the regional extinction, in northwestern Europe, of
the rudist genus Agriopleura, is associated with environmental and biological changes. This …

Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Early Cretaceous species of the genus Monopleura Matheron (Hippuritida, Monopleuridae) of the Mediterranean region

JP Masse, M Fenerci-Masse - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The genus Monopleura is characterized by a right valve anterior myophore on shell wall, the
posterior being on a transverse thickening. Shell habit varies from low conical to sub …