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
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
"vegetal remains"
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Unio cuvieri
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Chondrichthyes
Selachii indet. ()
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Reptilia
Crocodylomorpha indet. (Hay 1930)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Reptilia - Cairanoolithidae
Cairanoolithus dughii Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Reptilia
Ankylosauria indet. (Osborn 1923)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Ornithopoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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
Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
Díez Díaz et al. 2012
Reptilia
cf. Lirainosaurus astibiae Sanz et al. 1999
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]