- journal_title：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- Contributor：Géraldine Garcia ; Sauveur Amico ; Francois Fournier ; Eudes Thouand ; Xavier Valentin
- Publisher：Societe Geologique de France
- Date：2010-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.2113/gssgfbull.181.3.269
- journal_abbrev：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- issn：0037-9409
- volume：181
- issue：3
- firstpage：269
- section：Articles
d="p-1">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.