Grès à Reptiles is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 fossil site in the département of Var preserving the remains of several types of dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s and other extinct organisms.

Vertebrate paleofauna

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

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s of the Grès à Reptiles
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Gargantuavis Gargantuavis Gargantuavis was a genus of prehistoric bird, possibly related to Patagopteryx, containing thus far a single species, Gargantuavis philoinos. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern France, in the Marnes de la Maurine Formation dated to around 70 mya...	G. philoinos	Var
Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus was a long titanosaurid sauropod that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous Period .Hypselosaurus was scientifically described by geologist Pierre Émile Philippe Matheron in 1846 and formally named in...	H. priscus	Bouches-du-Rhône Var			Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.
Megalosaurus Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...	M. pannoniensis	Var
Pyroraptor Pyroraptor Pyroraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of France. It is known from a single specimen. It was found in 1992 in the south of France, in Provence, and is known only from a few bones. It was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000. The name means...	P. olympius	Bouches-du-Rhône		"Fragmentary postcrania and teeth."
Rhabdodon Rhabdodon Rhabdodon is a genus of dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 70 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. It is unclear whether it was an iguanodont or a hypsilophodont, and may be a "missing link" between the two. Current evidence indicates it is an iguanodont similar to Tenontosaurus...	R. priscus	Bouches-du-Rhône Var
Rhodanosaurus	R. lugdunensis	Bouches-du-Rhône
Titanosaurus Titanosaurus Titanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur, first described by Lydekker in 1877. It is known from the Maastrichtian Lameta Formation of India...	T. indicus	Var			Actually indeterminate sauropod remains.
Variraptor Variraptor Variraptor is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of France.Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux...	V. mechinorum	Var Bouches-du-Rhône

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing fossil sites