PBDB Collection

L'Olivet Quarry, Villeveyrac: Early/Lower Campanian, France

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia

	? Tethysaurinae indet. Makádi et al. 2012	Garcia et al. 2015	3 specimens
	A frontal (UP-VIL10-9), several vertebrae of which ten are here described (UP-VIL-10-03, UP-VIL-10-04, UP-VIL-10-10, UP-VIL-10- 11, UP-VIL-10-12, UP-VIL-10-13, UP-VIL-cast 1588, USTLOLV 3CV, USTL-OLV R 05, USTL-OLV R05 CV), and two limb bones (metacarpal: UP-VIL-10-06; tibia: UP-VIL-10- 08).

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827	Buffetaut 2005
Reptilia - Testudines

	Polysternon provinciale (Matheron 1869)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae

	Dortoka sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004
	= Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Cadena and Joyce 2015
	As Dotokidae indet. in p. 17 (misspelling)
Reptilia

	? Dermatemydidae indet. Baur 1888	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= Solemys aff. vermiculata Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003

	Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Trematochampsidae

	Trematochampsidae indet. Buffetaut 1974	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	invalid subgroup of Peirosauridae
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	cf. Rhabdodon priscus (Matheron 1869)	Buffetaut et al. 1996	5 specimens
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890	Buffetaut et al. 1996	8 specimens
	= Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
	= Struthiosaurus languedocensis n. sp. Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003	Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003
	UM2 OLV-D18-22, 27, 29, 50
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Deinonychosauria indet. Colbert and Russell 1969		1 specimen
	VIC 17
	= ? Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Palaeobatrachidae

	Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865	Buffetaut et al. 1996	1 specimen
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= cf. Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae

	Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
unclassified

	Charophyta indet. Migula 1890	Laurent et al. 2001
see common names

Geography

Country:	France	State/province:	Languedoc-Roussillon	County:	Hérault
Coordinates:	43.5° North, 3.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	34.2° North, 4.6° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Fuvelian = lower Campanian; but list is "a composite of the vertebrates found at different levels in the Villeveyrac quarry" - true, but this is still all referred to the lower Campanian; also early Campanian based on magentostratigraphy (chron C33.1r)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	fine,ferruginous,gray unlithified carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "...the vertebrate reamins found in recent years in the Villeveyrac basin come from the dark clays and associated more sandy facies of the lower, Campanian, levels." Pg. 3...."lignite-bearing, grey clays" (12830)
Environment:	estuary/bay
Geology comments: "continental deposit...a quiet and brackish environment"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	some
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera,some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:	bulk,surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Villeveyrac-L’Olivet
Database number:	47782
Authorizer:	J. Head, E. Vlachos, M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	J. Head, F. Aspromonte, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:	P. Mannion	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-03-01 12:36:56	Last modified:	2023-08-16 05:10:59
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-03-01 12:36:56
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

25139.

ETE

E. Buffetaut, B. Marandat, and B. Sigé. 1986. Découverte de dents de deinonychosaures (Saurischia, Theropoda) dans le Crétacé superieur du Sud de la France [Discovery of deinonychosaur teeth (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 303:1393-1396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13016	ETE	R. Allain and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 2003. Dinosaurs of France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:27-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
19845	ETE	M. Benammi, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2006. Preliminary magnetostratigraphic study of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur site from Villeveyrac-Mèze Basin, southern France. International Geology Review 48:89-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45717		W. T. Blows and K. Honeysett. 2014. New nodosaurid teeth (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(4):835-841 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]
29712		E. Buffetaut. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12788		E. Buffetaut, G. Costa, J. Le Loeuff, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, X. Valentin, and H. Tong. 1996. An early Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Villeveyrac Basin (Hérault, southern France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(1):1-16 [J. Head/J. Head/R. Benson]
45554		E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13042	ETE	E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, S. Duffaud, E. Gheerbrant, Y. Laurent, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, H. Tong and D. Vasse. 1997. Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: a review of recent finds. Géobios 20:101-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
62214		E. Cadena and W. G. Joyce. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clades Platychelyidae and Dortokidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1):3-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]
86261		G. Garcia, N. Bardet, A. Houssayec, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and X. Valentin. 2015. Mosasauroid (Squamata) discovery in the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) continental deposits of Villeveyrac–L’Olivet, southern France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14(6-7):495-505 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]
12830		G. Garcia and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2003. A new species of Struthiosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Villeveyrac (southern France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):156-165 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44196		F. d. Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga Bereikua, and V. Codrea. 2004. Presence of Dortokidae (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the earliest Tertiary of the Jibou Formation, Romania: paleobiogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:203-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59044		Y. Laurent, J. Le Loeuff, M. Bilotte, E. Buffetaut, and G. S. Odin. 2001. Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France). In G. S. Odin (ed.), The Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:657-674 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67934		J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1995. The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 181-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]