Grès à Reptiles

Grès à Reptiles
Stratigraphic range: Early Maastrichtian[1]
Type Geological formation
Location
Country  France

Grès à Reptiles is a French fossil site in the département of Var preserving the remains of several types of dinosaurs and other extinct organisms.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Possible abelisaurid remains are known from Département du Var and Département des Bouches-du-Rhone, France.[1] Enantiornithes remains present in Département du Var, France.[1] Indeterminate avialan remains known from Département du Var, France.[1]

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
 Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Dinosaurs of the Grès à Reptiles
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Atsinganosaurus

A. velauciensis[2]

A lithostrotian titanosaur
Pyroraptor
Rhabdodon
Variraptor

Gargantuavis[3]

G. philoinos[3]

Hypselosaurus[4]

H. priscus[4]

Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.[4]

Theropoda

Indeterminate

Previously referred to "Megalosaurus" pannoniensis

Pyroraptor[5]

P. olympius[5]
  • Bouches-du-Rhône[5]

"Fragmentary postcrania and teeth."[6]

Rhabdodon[4]

R. priscus[4]

Rhodanosaurus[5]

R. lugdunensis[5]
  • Bouches-du-Rhône[5]

Variraptor[4]

V. mechinorum[4]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Weishampel, David B; et al (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 588-593. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. ↑ Géraldine Garcia; Sauveur Amico; Francois Fournier; Eudes Thouand; Xavier Valentin (2010). A new titanosaur genus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of southern France and its paleobiogeographic implications. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France. 181 (3): 269–277. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.181.3.269.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "14.8 Département du Var, France; 2. Grès à Reptiles Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 589.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "14.8 Département du Var, France; 2. Grès à Reptiles Formation" and "14.38 Département des Bouches-du-Rhone, France; 1. Grès à Reptiles Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 589-590.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "14.38 Département des Bouches-du-Rhone, France; 1. Grès à Reptiles Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 590.
  6. ↑ "Table 10.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 199.

References


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