Pioch Herbaut (PHM): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Cairanoolithidae
Dughioolithus aff. roussetensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
18 specimens
recombined as Cairanoolithus roussetensis
PHM-31, 37, 47
Reptilia - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus tenuis n. sp. Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
PHM-1, 15
Prismatoolithus matellensis n. sp. Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
3 specimens
PHM-20–22
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus aff. aureliensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
PHM-299
    = Megaloolithus aureliensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
Garcia 1998
Megaloolithus aff. petralta Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
PHM-50, 300
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 3.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 2.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ?lower Rognacian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:extreme
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Pioch-Herbaut, Pioch Heraut, Pioch-Herbault
Database number:70285
Authorizer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Carrano, A. Garcia Selles
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-20 13:37:54 Last modified:2022-06-24 10:21:47
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-20 13:37:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44320. M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

44399 G. Garcia. 1998. Les coquilles d'oeufs de dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France: Diversité, paléobiologie, biochronologie et paléoenvironnements. 1 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]
75349 A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
23594ETE M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]