Combebelle, Villespassans (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (43.4° N, 2.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and J. Le Loeuff. 1998. A new giant ground bird from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France. Journal of the Geological Society, London 155:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88583: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Lissamphibia indet.3
Lissamphibia indet.3 Haeckel 1866 tetrapod
vertebrae
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp.1
Rhabdodon sp.1 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
Femora and tibia Musée de Cruzy
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.4
Dromaeosauridae indet.4 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
MC-VC1, VC2 (Musée de Cruzy)
Aves
 Ornithurae - Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuaviidae indet.2
Gargantuaviidae indet.2 Buffetaut and Angst 2019 bird
MDE-AMDE-A08, femur
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.3
Titanosauria indet.3 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
caudal vertebra (Musée des Dinosaures d'Espéraza)
1Buffetaut 2005; 2Buffetaut and Angst 2019; 3Buffetaut et al. 2021; 4Chanthasit and Buffetaut 2009