Roquefumade (F4) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Roque Fumade

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (42.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de la Maurine Member (Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Begudo-Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red marl

• "red marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Beetschen in 1970

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

Primary reference: J.-C. Beetschen. 1986. Sur les niveaux à coquilles d'oeufs de Dinosauriens de la région de Rennes-le-Château (Aude) [On the beds with dinosaur eggshells in the Rennes-le-Château region (Aude)]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 113-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61623: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
type RT-2
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
"testudoid" type