Also known as Rognac
Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 4.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "base of the Danian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dérognat in 1923–1927
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: V. Van Straelen and M.-E. Denaeyer. 1923. Sur des oeufs fossiles du Crétacé supérieur de Rognac en Provence [On some fossil eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Rognac in Provence]. Bulletins de la Classe des Sciences de l'Academie Royale de Belgique 9(1):14-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 141598: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.03.2013, edited by Joanna Wolfe
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Titanosauridae indet.1 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid eggshells - similar to neognath birds but obliquely referred to Rhabdodon
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