New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Gonçalves, Daniel, Luccisano, Vincent, Rebillard, Arnaud, Logghe, Antoine, Štamberg, Stanislav, Steyer, Sébastien (2025): New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins. Comptes Rendus Palevol 24 (11): 191-217, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a11, URL: doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a11 ABSTRACT The Decazeville Basin (Aveyron, France) is an Upper Carboniferous intra-Variscan basin of the southern part of the French Massif Central.

Its geology and paleontological content (fauna and flora) have been the subject of regular studies before and during its coal mining activities, but unfortunately not since they ceased: no fossil from the Decazeville Basin has been described over the past 50 years. Recent fieldwork at the La Découverte locality led to the rediscovery of a vertebrate-rich deposit in the Bourran Formation, of which we describe new material here.