Champ-Garimond: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Charales - Characea
Amblyochara media
Laurent et al. 2001
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Laurent et al. 2001
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Laurent et al. 2001
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Batrachosauroididae indet. Auffenberg 1958
Laurent et al. 2001
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825
Laurent et al. 2001
Mammalia - Zhelestidae
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
    = Labes garimondi n. sp. Pol et al. 1992
Pol et al. 1992
USTL GAR 007, 008 - right m1 or m2
Reptilia - Testudines
"Apholidemys" aff. gaudryi
Laurent et al. 2001
nomen dubium belonging to Testudines
cf. Polysternon sp. Portis 1882
Laurent et al. 2001
Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004
Reptilia - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoiidae indet. (Hoffstetter 1961)
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia - Boidae
Boidae indet. Gray 1825
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Iguanidae indet. Oppel 1811
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia
Eusuchia indet. (Huxley 1875)
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Teeth, previously assigned to Alligatoridae and Crocodyloidea by Buffetaut (1980), and Musturzabalsuchus by Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2000)
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon sp. (Matheron 1869)
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Deinonychosauria indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
1 specimen
CHG 48
    = Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Laurent et al. 2001
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Laurent et al. 2001
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Laurent et al. 2001
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Laurent et al. 2001
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Osteoglossidae indet. Bonaparte 1832
Laurent et al. 2001
Actinopteri - Characiformes
Characiformes indet. Regan 1911
Laurent et al. 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon County:Gard
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 4.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 5.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Begudo-Rognacian, now Campanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Universite´ Montpellier II (Sciences et Techniques), France
Metadata
Also known as:Champ Garimond; Fons 0
Database number:74660
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-22 08:36:44 Last modified:2022-03-08 14:17:16
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-22 08:36:44
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:

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]
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]
36728ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [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]
50887 T. Martin, E. Buffetaut, and H. Tong. 2015. A Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal from southwestern France. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89(3):535-544 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
37147 C. Pol, A. D. Buscalioni, J. Carballeira, V. Francés, N. López Martínez, B. Marandat, J. J. Moratalla, J. L. Sanz, B. Sigé and J. Villatte. 1992. Reptiles and mammals from the Late Cretaceous new locality Quintanilla del Coco (Burgos Province, Spain). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 184(3):279-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]