Vitrolles-Couperigne (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Bouches-du-Rhône, France (44.4° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Lower Rognacian"; middle-late Campanian following Fondevilla et al. (2019)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138412: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 17.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus tenuis Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994 dinosaur
eggshell fragments
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid