Bellevue, locality C3 (C III) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Campagne-sur-Aude

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (42.9° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de la Maurine Member (Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper part of the Maurine Red Marls Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red marl and lenticular, fine-grained, coarse conglomerate

• "meandering and braided fluvio-alluvial setting"
• "fluvial marls interbedded with microconglomeratic lenses"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Clottes, Raynaud in 1986-

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• also includes "remains of plants and invertebrates"

Primary reference: P. Clottes and C. Raynaud. 1983. Le gisement à dinosauriens de Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Observations préliminaires. Premiers résultats [The dinosaur locality at Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Preliminary observations. First results]. Bulletin de la Société d'Études Scientifiques de l'Aude 83:5-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48850: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005, edited by Roger Benson and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet.6 Haeckel 1866
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Axelrodichthys megadromos3 Cavin et al. 2016 coelacanth
MDE C3-02-57
Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Foxemys mechinorum4 Tong et al. 1998 sideneck turtle
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchidae indet.7 Narváez et al. 2015 crocodilian
 Loricata -
cf. Ischyrochampsa meridionalis5 Vasse 1995 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
cf. Struthiosaurus austriacus5 Bunzel 1871 ankylosaur
dermal plates
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon priscus6 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Variraptor mechinorum5 Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 maniraptoran
Aves
 Ornithurae - Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuavis philoinos n. gen. n. sp.2
Gargantuavis philoinos n. gen. n. sp.2 Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998 bird
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.8 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
left femur, MDE C3-1278
Ampelosaurus atacis n. gen. n. sp.6 Le Loeuff 1995 sauropod
cf. Lirainosaurus astibiae8 Sanz et al. 1999 sauropod
femora, MDE C3-61, C3-261, C3-203
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.1 pterosaur
Several poorly preserved hollow bones
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.6 Agassiz 1843 gar