Le Rousset (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as ERR, Rousset-Erben, La Bégude

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper Rognacian, above Rognac Limestone; eggs and fragments at approximately 9 levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; brown, red sandstone and sandstone

• lake and channel-belt settings
• "The nest was found in a lens of red-brown sandstone intercalated in a bank of sandstone with gravels and surmounted by a thick layer of sandstone with larger elements where eggshell fragments are abundant"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Frigara, Erben & Kerourio; Germain in 1956, 1979, 1987

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent. 1947. Les dinosauriens du Crétacé Supérieur du Midi de la France [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the south of France]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 56:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59780: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
CM acc. 33679
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus sp.2, Megaloolithus mamillare n. gen. n. sp.2
Megaloolithus sp.2 Mikhailov 1991 titanosaurid
ERR1-1, ERR1-C; M. aff. petralta or M. aff. siruguei
Megaloolithus mamillare n. gen. n. sp.2 Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
"probably"
1Database 2015; 2Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994