Genty, Montagne Sainte Victoire (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 6.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• The original, local age assignment is Begudien.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; micaceous, gray, red sandstone

• from "red or gray micaceous sandstone, rich in quartz, muscovite, and diverse minerals (tourmaline, disthene, grenat, biotite)"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Dughi and F. Sirugue. 1958. Sur les oeufs de dinosaures du bassin fluvio-lacustre de Basse-Provence. Comptes Rendus du Congrès National des Sociétés Savantes, Section des Sciences, Paris 83:183-205 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35932: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Eggs only. Bone fragments from dinosaurs and crocodiles are certainly present but are not reported in ref.9659.
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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
eggs