Also known as Chateauneuf le Rouge

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Danian", "lower red zone" (probably = "Lower Red Garumnian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Martini in 1957, 1959

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Schwarz, F. Fehse, G. Müller, F. Andersson, and F. Sieck. 1961. Untersuchungen an Dinosaurier-Eischalen von Aix en Provence und der Mongolei (Shabarakh Usu) [Studies on dinosaur eggshells from Aix en Provence and Mongolia (Shabarakh Usu)]. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie Abteilung A 165(3-4):344-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146192: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.06.2013

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