Roques Hautes, Trets-Pourcieux: Late/Upper Campanian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004
Reptilia - Prismatoolithidae
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
eggs
    = Prismatoolithus tenuis Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Le Loeuff 1993 2 specimens
tibia, radius
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur County:Bouches-du-Rhone
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 5.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 5.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:272 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Begudian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59778
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-11 10:52:16 Last modified:2022-04-20 11:18:05
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-11 10:52:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17124.ETE R. Dughi and F. Sirugue. 1958. Les oeufs de Dinosaures du bassin d'Aix-en-Provence: les oeufs du Bégudien [The dinosaur eggs from the Aix-en-Provence basin: the eggs from the Begudian]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 246:2386-2388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14221ETE K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59043 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]
44196 F. d. Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga Bereikua, and V. Codrea. 2004. Presence of Dortokidae (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the earliest Tertiary of the Jibou Formation, Romania: paleobiogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:203-215 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
51991 A. H. Müller. 1963. Über Dinosaurier-Eier aus der Oberkreide (Dan) Frankreichs, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der elecktromikroskopischen Strukturen. Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 5(2):75-87 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]
75349 A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
44320 M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano]
23594ETE M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52603 D. I. G. Williams, R. S. Seymour, and P. Kerourio. 1984. Structure of fossil dinosaur eggshell from the Aix Basin, France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 45:23-37 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]