PBDB Collection

L'Olivet Quarry, Villeveyrac: Early/Lower Campanian, France

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	? Dermatemydidae indet. Baur 1888	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= Solemys aff. vermiculata Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003
Reptilia - Testudines

	Polysternon provinciale (Matheron 1869)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae

	Dortoka sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004
	= Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Cadena and Joyce 2015
	As Dotokidae indet. in p. 17 (misspelling)
Reptilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827	Buffetaut 2005

	? Tethysaurinae indet. Makádi et al. 2012	Garcia et al. 2015	3 specimens
	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).
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Deinonychosauria indet. Colbert and Russell 1969		1 specimen
	VIC 17
	= ? Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890	Buffetaut et al. 1996	8 specimens
	= Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
	= Struthiosaurus languedocensis n. sp. Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003	Garcia and Pereda-Suberbiola 2003
	UM2 OLV-D18-22, 27, 29, 50
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	cf. Rhabdodon priscus (Matheron 1869)	Buffetaut et al. 1996	5 specimens
Reptilia

	Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Reptilia - Trematochampsidae

	Trematochampsidae indet. Buffetaut 1974	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	invalid subgroup of Peirosauridae
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Palaeobatrachidae

	Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865	Buffetaut et al. 1996	1 specimen
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Buffetaut et al. 1996
	= cf. Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843	Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1995
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae

	Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)	Buffetaut et al. 1996
Ostracoda

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Laurent et al. 2001
unclassified

	Charophyta indet. Migula 1890	Laurent et al. 2001
see common names

Geography

Country:	France	State/province:	Languedoc-Roussillon	County:	Hérault
Coordinates:	43.5° North, 3.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	34.2° North, 4.6° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 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)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	fine,ferruginous,gray unlithified carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "...the vertebrate reamins found in recent years in the Villeveyrac basin come from the dark clays and associated more sandy facies of the lower, Campanian, levels." Pg. 3...."lignite-bearing, grey clays" (12830)
Environment:	estuary/bay
Geology comments: "continental deposit...a quiet and brackish environment"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	some
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera,some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:	bulk,surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Villeveyrac-L’Olivet
Database number:	47782
Authorizer:	J. Head, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos	Enterer:	J. Head, P. Mannion, F. Aspromonte, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos
Modifier:	P. Mannion	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-03-01 12:36:56	Last modified:	2023-08-16 05:10:59
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-03-01 12:36:56
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

25139.

ETE

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]

Secondary references:

13016	ETE	R. Allain and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 2003. Dinosaurs of France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:27-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
19845	ETE	M. Benammi, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 2006. Preliminary magnetostratigraphic study of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur site from Villeveyrac-Mèze Basin, southern France. International Geology Review 48:89-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45717		W. T. Blows and K. Honeysett. 2014. New nodosaurid teeth (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(4):835-841 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]
29712		E. Buffetaut. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:39-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12788		E. Buffetaut, G. Costa, J. Le Loeuff, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, X. Valentin, and H. Tong. 1996. An early Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Villeveyrac Basin (Hérault, southern France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(1):1-16 [J. Head/J. Head/R. Benson]
45554		E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13042	ETE	E. Buffetaut, J. Le Loeuff, L. Cavin, S. Duffaud, E. Gheerbrant, Y. Laurent, M. Martin, J.-C. Rage, H. Tong and D. Vasse. 1997. Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: a review of recent finds. Géobios 20:101-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
62214		E. Cadena and W. G. Joyce. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clades Platychelyidae and Dortokidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1):3-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]
86261		G. Garcia, N. Bardet, A. Houssayec, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and X. Valentin. 2015. Mosasauroid (Squamata) discovery in the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) continental deposits of Villeveyrac–L’Olivet, southern France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14(6-7):495-505 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]
12830		G. Garcia and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2003. A new species of Struthiosaurus (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Villeveyrac (southern France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):156-165 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44196		F. d. Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga Bereikua, and V. Codrea. 2004. Presence of Dortokidae (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the earliest Tertiary of the Jibou Formation, Romania: paleobiogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:203-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]
67934		J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1995. The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 181-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]