Vitrolles la Plaine, Rognac: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected 1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Anadromidae
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Lychnus matheroni
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Titanosauridae indet.
Lydekker 1885
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Megaloolithus mamillare
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Reptilia
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Ratitae indet.
Merrem 1813
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eggshells | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Alligatoroidea indet.
Gray 1844
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= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016 | |||||||||
cf. Musturzabalsuchus sp.
Buscalioni et al. 1997
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= Crocodyliformes indet.
Hay 1930
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Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Bothremydidae
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Bothremydidae indet.
Baur 1891
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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cf. Polysternon sp.
Portis 1882
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Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Mammalia
- Zhelestidae
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Valentinella vitrollense n. gen., n. sp.
Tabuce et al. 2004
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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 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Actinopteri
- Spariformes
- Sparidae
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Sparidae indet.
(Cuvier 1817)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | County: | Bouches-du-Rhône |
Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 5.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.1° North, 3.8° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "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 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1990s |
Metadata
Also known as: | Vitrolles-La Plaine | ||
Database number: | 47893 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-06 17:37:22 | Last modified: | 2022-03-08 15:06:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-06 17:37:22 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12831. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
76809 | Y. Dutour and T. Tortosa. 2010. Aix-en-Provence Basin—between eggs and dinosaurs. 8th Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Abstract Volume 86-93 [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] | |
76284 | E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
56875 | R. Tabuce, T. Tortosa, M. Vianey-Liaud, G. Garcia, R. Lebrun, P. Godefroit, Y. Dutour, S. Berton, X. Valentin and G. Cheylan. 2013. New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169:653-672 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |