Also known as Grands Creux, Grands-Creux, Sainte Victoire, Roquehaute

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower Rognacian; estimated strat level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, fine-grained, red claystone and paleosol/pedogenic, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• The section is huge (about 200m)

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 65398: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006

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