Vitrolles-Couperigne: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Megaloolithus siruguei
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Garcia 1998 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Prismatoolithidae
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Prismatoolithus tenuis
Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
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| eggshell fragments | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Bouches-du-Rhône |
| Coordinates: | 44.4° North, 5.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 6.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 807 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Vitrolles-Couperigne | Local bed: | 2 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Rognacian"; middle-late Campanian following Fondevilla et al. (2019) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 138412 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-01-17 12:18:42 | Last modified: | 2021-03-29 08:35:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-17 12:18:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44320. | M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 44399 | G. Garcia. 1998. Les coquilles d'oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France: Diversité, paléobiologie, biochronologie et paléoenvironnements. 1 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles] |