Saint Ser, Puyloubier (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as St Ser, Montagne Sainte Victoire, St-Ser

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 4.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The original, local age is Begudien, but the eggs are typical from the Lower Maastrichtian; now considered upper Rognacian = upper Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; white sandstone

• "a whitich Rognacian sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kerourio

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 35933: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 12.01.2004, edited by Albert Garcia Selles and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• Dinosaur bone fragments are also present.
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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus siruguei2, Megaloolithus petralta1
Megaloolithus siruguei2 Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
eggshells and eggs, possibly in a clutch; MHNH 2272
Megaloolithus petralta1 Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
1Garcia 1998; 2Vianey-Liaud et al. 2003