Also known as Vitrolles-La Plaine
Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 3.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Vitrolles-La Plaine is posterior to reversal chron 31r-31n, and located about 15 m above the M. siruguei and M. mamillare replacement" (Tabuce et al. 2013); however, Fondevilla et al. (2019) suggested it is early Maastrichtian instead
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone and marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in the 1990s
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Tabuce, M. Vianey-Liaud, and G. Garcia. 2004. A eutherian mammal in the latest Cretaceous of Vitrolles, southern France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):347-356 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 47893: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lychnus matheroni slug | |
Mammalia | |
Valentinella vitrollense n. gen. n. sp.
Valentinella vitrollense n. gen. n. sp. Tabuce et al. 2004 eutherian UM-VLP-2 - holotype (damaged right dentary with p4-m3); Referred material: UP-VLP-10-01, a left dentary fragment with roots of m1−m3; UM-VLP-4, a dentary with remnants of right and left molariform teeth; UM-VLP-3, fragment of a probable right PX; UP-VLP- 07-04, fragment of a left upper molar
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Reptilia | |
Bothremydidae indet. sideneck turtle
cf. Polysternon sp. Portis 1882 sideneck turtle | |
Squamata indet. squamates | |
Crocodyliformes indet. crocodilian | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Aves | |
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Reptilia | |
Sauropoda indet. sauropod | |
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
Megaloolithus mamillare Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar | |
Sparidae indet. Cuvier 1817 |