Roques-Hautes (MNHN) (Cretaceous to of France)

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 5.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1979

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• collection made in 1980s. Separate collection of dinosaur eggs and nests made in 1940s-50s (Lapparent 1955)

Primary reference: J. Le Loeuff, E. Buffetaut, P. Méchin and A. Méchin-Salessy. 1992. The first record of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Maastrichtian of southern Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications. Bulletin de la Société géologique de la France 163(3):337-343 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28455: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.02.2003, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae
Hypsilophodontidae indet. hypsilophodontid
femur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
tooth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Variraptor mechinorum1 Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998 maniraptoran
Coll. Mechin (2 vertebrae, several ribs)