Les Vignes (VSG) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Saint-Gely-du-Fesc

Where: Occitanie, France (43.7° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Rognacian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red, sandy claystone

• "a one meter thick bed composed of red sandy clays intercalated with microconglomerates."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by M. Vianey-Liaud & J.-Y. Crochet

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226213: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Cairanoolithidae
Cairanoolithus aff. dughii
Cairanoolithus aff. dughii Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 ornithischian
VSG-100–102
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Megaloolithus aff. petralta, Megaloolithus aff. aureliensis
? Megaloolithus aff. petralta Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
VSG-2
Megaloolithus aff. aureliensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
VSG-1, 75, 77