Also known as Villeveyrac-L’Olivet
Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.5° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 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)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, gray, carbonaceous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), mechanical,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47782: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 01.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion, Franco Aspromonte and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Struthiosaurus languedocensis n. sp.5
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? Tethysaurinae indet.4 Makádi et al. 2012 squamates 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).
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Actinopteri | |
Sparidae indet.2 Cuvier 1817 | |
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Charophyta indet.6 Migula 1890 |