Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation (meaning Reptile Clay and Sandstone) also known as the Argiles Rutilantes Formation[1] is an early Maastrichtian[2]French geologic formation in the département of Var preserving the remains of several types of dinosaurs and other extinct organisms.[3]
An abelisaurid similar to Arcovenator is known from Département des Bouches-du-Rhone, while enantiornithean and indeterminate avialan remains are known from Département du Var.[2]
^B. Vila; A. Galobart; J.U. Canudo; J. Le Loeff; et al. (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 (15): 19–38. Bibcode:2012PPP...350...19V. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.008.
^ abcdefg"14.8 Département du Var, France; 2. Grès à Reptiles Formation," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.589
^ abcdefghi"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, pp.589-590
^ abcdefghij"14.38 Département des Bouches-du-Rhone, France; 1. Grès à Reptiles Formation," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.590
Blanco, A., and C. A. Brochu. 2016. Intra- and interspecific variability in allodaposuchid crocodylomorphs and the status of western European taxa. Historical Biology 29. 395-408.
Martin, J. E.; M. Delfino; G. Garcia; P. Godefroit; S. Berton, and X. Valentin. 2016. New specimens of Allodaposuchus precedens from France: intraspecific variability and the diversity of European Late Cretaceous eusuchians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176. 607-631.
Cheylan, Rodolphe; Thierry Tortosa; Monique Vianey-Liaud; Géraldine Garcia; Renaud Lebrun; Pascal Godefroit; Yves Dutour; Sévérine Berton, and Xavier Valentin. 2013. [ New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France]. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169. 653–672. doi:10.1111/zoj.12074ISSN0024-4082
Martin, J. E. 2007. New material of the Late Cretaceous globidontan Acynodon iberoccitanus (Crocodylia) from southern France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27. 362-372.
Le Loeuff, J., and É. Buffetaut. 1998. A new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France.. Oryctos 1. 105-112.
Tong, H.; E. S. Gaffney, and É. Buffetaut. 1998. Foxemys, a new side-necked turtle (Bothremydidae: Pelomedusoides) from the Late Cretaceous of France. American Museum Novitates 3251. 1-19.
Vianey-Liaud, M.; P. Mallan; O. Buscail, and C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, 151–183. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Further reading
R. Cousin, G. Breton, R. Fournier and J.-P. Watte. 1994. Dinosaur egglaying and nesting in France. K. Carpenter, K.F. Hirsch & J.R. Horner (eds.) Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 56-74
J. Le Loeuff, E. Buffetaut, P. Méchin and A. Méchin-Salessy. 1992. The first record of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Maastrichtian of southern Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications. Bulletin de la Société géologique de la France 163(3):337-343
R. Dughi and F. Sirugue. 1958. Sur les oeufs de dinosaures du bassin fluvio-lacustre de Basse-Provence. Comptes Rendus du Congrès National des Sociétés Savantes, Section des Sciences, Paris 83:183-20