Ventabren-Aire de Repos (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Ventrabren, Ventebren

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• at the border between the "Valdonnien" and "Fuvélien"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by X. Valentin

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Schwarz, F. Fehse, G. Müller, F. Andersson, and F. Sieck. 1961. Untersuchungen an Dinosaurier-Eischalen von Aix en Provence und der Mongolei (Shabarakh Usu) [Studies on dinosaur eggshells from Aix en Provence and Mongolia (Shabarakh Usu)]. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie Abteilung A 165(3-4):344-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61620: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Viviparus bosqui1 snail
var. novemcostata
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus siruguei3 Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudines -
Pleurodira indet.1 sideneck turtle
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Axelrodichthys megadromos n. sp.1 Cavin et al. 2016 coelacanth
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae