Late-Cretaceous non-marine Vertebrates from Southern France: a review of recent finds

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• 01-01-1997

Buffetaut, E., Le Loeuff, J., Cavin, L., Duffaud, S., Gheerbrant, E., Laurent, Y., Martin, M., Rage, J.-C., Tong, H. & Vasse, D.. Geobios, MS 20: 101-108

During the last few years, systematic prospections and excavations in the non-marine Campanian andMaastrichtian of southern France, from Provence in the East to the valley of the Garonne in the West, have considerably increased our knowledge of the continental vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, turtles, squamates, crocodilians, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, birds and mammals) from that time interval. A succession of faunal assemblages, corresponding to the Early Campanian, the Late Campanian/Early Maastrichtian and the Late Maastrichtian, can now be recognised, with a marked change in the dinosaur fauna during the Maastrichtian, but no clear evidence of decline during the last million years of the Cretaceous. The biogeographical complexity of the Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages from southwestern Europe is underlined.

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