Fox-Amphoux-Métisson: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
collected by A. F. de Lapparent 1939
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
"vegetal remains" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unio cuvieri
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
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Decapoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
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Selachii indet.
()
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylomorpha indet.
(Hay 1930)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Cairanoolithidae
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Cairanoolithus dughii
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Ankylosauria indet.
(Osborn 1923)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Ornithopoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
FAM 03.064 (partial braincase); FAM 10.01 (fragment of skull roof [R frontal and fragment of parietal] from 2nd individual); FAM 03.175 (fragment of skull roof [R frontal & partial parietal] from 3rd individual); FAM 03.06, 03.08, 03.11, 03.55, 03.62, 03.200, 04.16, 04.17 and 04.18 (9 isolated teeth) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Megaloolithus siruguei
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Díez Díaz et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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cf. Lirainosaurus astibiae
Sanz et al. 1999
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Vila et al. 2012 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
left femur, FOX107; right femur, MHN.Aix.PV.2001.124 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | County: | Var |
Coordinates: | 43.6° North, 6.1° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.7° North, 6.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Grès à Reptiles | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: part of the Fox-Amphoux syncline; = Lower Rognacian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lenticular silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Lens (about 50 cm in thickness) of fine channel-fill deposits and silty sandstones with pisoliths and quartz grains | |
Environment: | fine channel fill |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | A. F. de Lapparent | Collection dates: | June 1939 |
Collection method comments: ARPV |
Metadata
Also known as: | Fox-Amphoux | ||
Database number: | 132354 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-08-14 21:37:30 | Last modified: | 2022-02-02 16:21:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-14 21:37:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46006. | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Les dinosauriens du Crétacé Supérieur du Midi de la France [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the south of France]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 56:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
42629 | V. Díez Díaz, G. Garcia, F. Knoll, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and X. Valentin. 2012. New cranial remains of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Fox-Amphoux-Métisson (Var, SE France). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123(4):626-637 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
74890 | V. Díez Díaz, G. Garcia, X. Pereda Suberbiola, B. Jentgen-Ceschino, K. Stein, P. Godefroit, and X. Valentin. 2021. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France). Historical Biology 33(11):2998-3017 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
55429 | B. Vila, A. Galobart, J. I. Canudo, J. Le Loeuff, J. Dinarès-Turell, V. Riera, O. Oms, T. Tortosa, and R. Gaete. 2012. The diversity of sauropod dinosaurs and their first taxonomic succession from the latest Cretaceous of southwestern Europe: Clues to demise and extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352:19-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |