La Neuve (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• a subhorizontal layer in the Arc syncline; terminal/upper "Begudian"; no formation name given; middle Campanian following Fondevilla et al. (2019)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray sandstone and red, yellow, argillaceous, carbonaceous marl

• JA: presence of freshwater charophytes, gastropods, and ostracods in a claystone indicates a lacustrine setting
• "an alternation of two meter-scale gray sandstone banks, and thicker ochre-red argillaceous marl beds. The sandstones are relatively thick; the clays contain silica grains and carbonate nodules. The fossiliferous layer is included high in the clay layer delimited by the sandstone banks."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Kerourio in 1970

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59269: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.03.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Charales - Characea
Peckichara pectinata1
"forme naine"
Amblyochara begudiana1 Grambast 1962
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
"? Pupilla sp." = Pupa (Pupilla)1
"? Pupilla sp." = Pupa (Pupilla)1 Leach 1828 snail
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
"? Pisidiidae indet." = Pisidiinae1
"? Pisidiidae indet." = Pisidiinae1 Gray 1857 clam
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 ostracod
Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Salientia - Palaeobatrachidae
Palaeobatrachidae indet.1 Cope 1865 frog
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Discoglossidae indet.1 Günther 1859 painted frog
 Caudata -
Caudata indet.1 salamander
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.1 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Mammalia
  -
? Mammalia indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 mammal
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet.1 lizard
vertebrae, "eggshell with gekkonoid structural morphotype"
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
Acynodon sp.3 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
Acynodon iberoccitanus1 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithidae indet.1 Kohring and Hirsch 1996 crocodile eggshell
eggshells
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Struthiosaurus sp.1 Bunzel 1870 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
? Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
"Rhabdodon aff. robustus" = Zalmoxes robustus1
"Rhabdodon aff. robustus" = Zalmoxes robustus1 Nopcsa 1900 rhabdodontid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
"eggshell with prismatic structural morphotype"
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Richardoestesia sp.2 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
NEV 12
 Theropoda -
cf. Paronychodon sp.1 Cope 1876 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Laevisoolithidae
Laevisoolithidae indet.1 Mikhailov 1991 theropod
"eggshell with ratite structural morphotype"
 Sauria -
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.1 Agassiz 1843 gar