Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.6° N, 6.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 6.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• part of the Fox-Amphoux syncline; lower Rognacian
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•Late Campanian age, based of magnetostratigraphic analyses and biostratigraphic information derived from charophyte and dinosaur eggshell biozones (Cincotta et al. 2015)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; yellow, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Mechin, Germain, Palaios/ University of Poitiers/RBINS in 1987, 1990s, 2009, 2012
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28454: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.02.2003, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Podocnemidae indet.11 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
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Foxemys mechinorum n. gen. n. sp.14
Foxemys mechinorum n. gen. n. sp.14 Tong et al. 1998 sideneck turtle 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
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Gargantuavis philoinos3 Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998 bird partial synsacrum; Mechin collection, n° 711 (femur)
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cf. Dromaeosauridae indet.2 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran MDE-D25 (proximal half of a hypertrophied ungual phalanx of the left pedal digit II)
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Garrigatitan meridionalis n. gen. n. sp.9
Garrigatitan meridionalis n. gen. n. sp.9 Díez Díaz et al. 2021 sauropod 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
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Azhdarchidae indet.5 Nessov 1984 pterosaur Right humerus representing an individual with a 3 m wingspan
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