La Cardeline 2 (CRD2) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Châteauneuf-le-Rouge

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper Rognacian, overlying the Rognac Limestone; collected at layers 1.5 m and 3 m above road level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty claystone and sandstone

• "red, silty clays...with sandy and conglomeratic layers and lenses."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Vianey-Liaud, P. Mallan, O. Buscail and C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 151-183 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178881: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus sp., "Megaloolithus mammilare" = Megaloolithus mamillare
Megaloolithus sp. Mikhailov 1991 titanosaurid
CRD2-A, aff. petralta or aff. siruguei
"Megaloolithus mammilare" = Megaloolithus mamillare Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
CRD2-D. CRD2-Did, CRD2-E, CRD2-B, CRD2-C