Les Pennes-Mirabeau (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.4° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 3.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Kerourio in 1978

Primary reference: P. Kerourio. 1982. Un nouveau type de coquille d'oeuf présumé dinosaurien dans le Campanien et le Maestrichtien continental de Provence [A new type of presumably dinosaurian eggshell in the continental Campanian and Maastrichtian of Provence]. Palaeovertebrata 12(4):141-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178472: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
middle caudal vertebrae, humerus
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus tenuis Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994 dinosaur
ornithoid eggshells