Vitrolles-Couperigne, F3: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hantkenia sp.
Leptopoma baylai
Bulimiformes indet.
Charales - Characea
Peckichara cancellata
Reptilia
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus cf. aureliensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
Reptilia - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus cf. tenuis Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
Gastropoda - Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae indet. Gray 1847
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupa patula
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur County: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:24 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Rognacian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59267
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-22 05:40:54 Last modified:2021-05-07 09:50:55
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-22 05:40:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16945.ETE G. Garcia, M. Pincema, M. Vianey-Liaud, B. Marandat, E. Lorenz, G. Cheylan, H. Cappetta, J. Michaux, and J. Sudre. 1999. Découverte du premier squelette presque complet de Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) du Maastrichtien inférieur de Provence [Discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Provence (southern France)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:415-421 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

16950ETE G. Garcia. 2000. Diversité des coquilles "minces" d'oeufs fossiles du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Diversity of fossil eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 33(1):113-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
59044 Y. Laurent, J. Le Loeuff, M. Bilotte, E. Buffetaut, and G. S. Odin. 2001. Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France). In G. S. Odin (ed.), The Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19:657-674 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75349 A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]