Fox-Amphoux-La Bastide Neuve: Late/Upper Campanian, France
collected by P. Mechin, Germain, Palaios/ University of Poitiers/RBINS 1987, 1990, 2009, 2012
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Database 2015 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
CM acc. 33679 (field nos. 48-36, 48-45) | ||||||||||
Garrigatitan meridionalis n. gen., n. sp.
Díez Díaz et al. 2021
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Díez Díaz et al. 2021 | |||||||||
MMS/VBN.09.170 - holotype; referred specimens: MMS/VBN.02.99, 09.A.016, 09.47, 12B.12a, 12B.12b; tentatively referred specimens: MMS/VBN.12B.011, 12.82, 09.A.017, 00.13 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Saltasauridae
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Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Saltasauridae indet.
Sereno 1998
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Chanthasit and Buffetaut 2009 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
= Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Garcia et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhabdodontidae
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
= Rhabdodon sp.
Matheron 1869
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Chanthasit and Buffetaut 2009 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Chanthasit and Buffetaut 2009 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
CM-203, 307, 186, 218, 537, 684 | ||||||||||
cf. Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Brilhante et al. 2022 | |||||||||
MDE-D25 (proximal half of a hypertrophied ungual phalanx of the left pedal digit II) | ||||||||||
Variraptor mechinorum n. gen., n. sp.
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
MDE-D169, CM-645 (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Gargantuaviidae
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Gargantuavis philoinos
Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998
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Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 2011 | |||||||||
partial synsacrum; Mechin collection, n° 711 (femur) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
= Enantiornithes indet.
Walker 1981
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Buffetaut et al. 2000 | |||||||||
Mechin collection no. 606 (complete right tibiotarsus) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Cavin et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Azhdarchidae
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Azhdarchidae indet.
Nessov 1984
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Buffetaut et al. 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Right humerus representing an individual with a 3 m wingspan | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
= Acynodon iberoccitanus
Buscalioni et al. 1997
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Martin 2007 | |||||||||
ACAP-FX1 (a complete skull) and ACAP-FX2 (an almost complete skull with premaxillary and maxillary dentition) | ||||||||||
Alligatoridae indet.
Gray 1844
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | |||||||||
= Allodaposuchus precedens
Nopcsa 1928
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Martin et al. 2016 | |||||||||
MMS/VBN-12-42, a nearly complete skull of a juvenile; MMS/VBN-12-10A, a complete adult skull; MMS/VBN-12-10B, a right dentary associated with the large adult skull MMS/VBN-12- 10A; MMS/VBN-93-28, a dorsoventrally compressed subadult skull; MMS/VBN-12-10D, a juvenile skull table; MMS/VBN-93-29, isolated fragmentary left maxilla; MMS/VBN-93-30, isolated fragmentary right maxilla possibly corresponding to MMS/VBN-93-29; MMS/ VBN-12-10F, one dorsal osteoderm; MMS/VBN-02- 37, a left femur | ||||||||||
= Allodaposuchus sp.
Nopcsa 1928
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Blanco and Brochu 2016 | |||||||||
Solemys gaudryi
(Matheron 1869)
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Tong et al. 2023 | |||||||||
PAM 485, MDE T54, MDE T55 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Podocnemidae indet.
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Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
MDEt 10 (holotype), a dorsoventrally crushed skull; an almost complete skull (figs. 103, 104, 107, 281; PAM 511A, Tong et al., 1998: figs. 3–6); an incomplete lower jaw (figs. 235, 236; PAM 511B, Tong et al., 1998: figs. 7, 8); an almost complete and wellpreserved shell in which the plastron is complete and only the posterior part of the carapace is missing (lacking right sixth to eighth costal and part of seventh and eighth left costal bones, eighth to eleventh right peripheral and eleventh left peripheral bones, suprapygal and pygal bones; PAM 548, Tong et al., 1998: figs. 9, 10); a partial shell consisting of the anterior third of the carapace in poor condition and a complete plastron (MDEt 09, Tong et al., 1998: fig. 11); a right scapula-coracoid (MDEt 11); and several isolated plates, an almost complete shell, MHNM uncatalogued | ||||||||||
= Foxemys mechinorum n. gen., n. sp.
Tong et al. 1998
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Tong et al. 1998 | |||||||||
Coelacanthimorpha
- Coelacanthiformes
- Mawsoniidae
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Axelrodichthys megadromos
Cavin et al. 2016
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Cavin et al. 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
R prearticular, collection Méchin 745 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Cavin et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodontidae indet.
(Agassiz 1834)
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Cavin et al. 2020 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Coordinates: | 43.6° North, 6.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 6.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 424 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: part of the Fox-Amphoux syncline; lower Rognacian
Late Campanian age, based of magnetostratigraphic analyses and biostratigraphic information derived from charophyte and dinosaur eggshell biozones (Cincotta et al. 2015) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow sandy claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "yellowish sandy clays" | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Geology comments: "as a freshwater environment corresponding to fluvial setting of moder- ate energy with broad floodplain" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | P. Mechin, Germain, Palaios/ University of Poitiers/RBINS | Collection dates: | 1987, 1990s, 2009, 2012 |
Metadata
Database number: | 28454 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-02-14 10:41:51 | Last modified: | 2022-08-17 04:28:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-14 10:41:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
7841. | J. Le Loeuff, E. Buffetaut, P. Méchin and A. Méchin-Salessy. 1992. The first record of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Maastrichtian of southern Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications. Bulletin de la Société géologique de la France 163(3):337-343 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
59690 | A. Blanco and C. A. Brochu. 2016. Intra- and interspecific variability in allodaposuchid crocodylomorphs and the status of western European taxa. Historical Biology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
80976 | N. S. Brilhante, T. Constância de França, F. Castro, L. Sanches Costa, P. J. Currie, S. A. Kugland Azevedo, and R. Delcourt. 2022. A dromaeosaurid-like claw from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France. Historical Biology [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
30133 | E. Buffetaut. 2008. Late Cretaceous pterosaurs from France: a review. Zitteliana B 28:249-255 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
76670 | E. Buffetaut, D. Angst, P. Mechin and A. Mechin-Salessy. 2019. A femur of the giant bird Gargantuavis from the Late Cretaceous of Var (south-eastern France). Carnets natures 6:47-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
38140 | E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 2011. Gargantuavis philoinos: Giant bird or giant pterosaur?. Annales de Paléontologie 96:135-141 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
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76814 | L. Cavin, E. Buffetaut, Y. Dutour, G. Garcia, J. Le Loeuff, A. Méchin, P. Méchin, H. Tong, T. Tortosa, E. Turini, and X. Valentin. 2020. The last known freshwater coelacanths: new Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from southern France. PLoS One 15(6):e0234183:1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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