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
Lychnus matheroni
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Megaloolithus mamillare Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Reptilia
Ratitae indet. Merrem 1813
eggshells
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Alligatoroidea indet. Gray 1844
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
cf. Musturzabalsuchus sp. Buscalioni et al. 1997
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Bothremydidae
Bothremydidae indet. Baur 1891
Reptilia - Testudines
cf. Polysternon sp. Portis 1882
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
Mammalia - Zhelestidae
Valentinella vitrollense n. gen., n. sp. Tabuce et al. 2004
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
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)
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]