Roquehautes, Crête du Marbre (RHM) (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Mine-de-Marbre, Roques-Hautes

Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower Rognacian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, sandy marl

• "red, sandy marls"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. M. Penner. 1985. The problem of dinosaur extinction. Contribution of the study of terminal Cretaceous eggshells from southeast France. Geobios 18(5):665-669 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65348: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Cairanoolithidae
"Dughioolithus roussetensis" = Cairanoolithus roussetensis
"Dughioolithus roussetensis" = Cairanoolithus roussetensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 ornithischian
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus siruguei
Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid