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BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE
Volume 181, Issue 3, Pages 269-277Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.181.3.269
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Sauropoda; Titanosauria; Upper Cretaceous; Southern France; Paleobiogeography
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- Conseil General des Bouches-du-Rhone
- UMR-CNRS, University of Poitiers [6046]
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A new titanosaur, Atsinganosaurus velauciensis, gen. and sp. nov. is described from well-preserved remains from the new Upper Cretaceous locality of Velaux-La Bastide Neuve (Aix-en-Provence Basin, France). This taxon is mainly diagnosed by a combination of characters, which differentiates it without ambiguity from other European Late Cretaceous taxa (Lirainosaurus, Ampelosaurus and Magyarosaurus). Atsinganosaurus confirms the presence in western Europe during the latest Cretaceous of a third titanosaurian species, slender and less derived which allows us to better understand the evolutionary and paleobiogeographical history of this group during the Cretaceous.
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