Les Bréguières (LBR) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Les Breguieres

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.6° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• approximately 5 levels at 2-12 m above base of section; overlain by La Galante Conglomerate; upper part of late Rognacian red clays.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; red, silty claystone and medium-grained sandstone

• channel belt deposit
• "red silty-clayey sediments with slight color changes through the section."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Vianey-Liaud, P. Mallan, O. Buscail and C. Montgelard. 1994. Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 151-183 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61624: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus pseudomamillare n. sp." = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus pseudomamillare n. sp." = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
LBR1 to 5
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
"Megaloolithus mammilare" = Megaloolithus mamillare
"Megaloolithus mammilare" = Megaloolithus mamillare Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
LBR2-A, LBR3-A