Clapiers, Montpellier: Maastrichtian, France
collected 1961

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
    = Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Le Loeuff 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Hérault
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 3.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 2.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:45 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1961
Metadata
Database number:59769
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-11 06:44:55 Last modified:2013-03-15 14:24:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-11 06:44:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17111.ETE M. Mattauer and L. Thaler. 1961. Découverte d’oeufs et d’os de Dinosaures dans le Crétacé terminal des environs de Montpellier (Hérault) [Discovery of dinosaur eggs and bones in the terminal Cretaceous of the environs of Montpellier (Hérault)]. Comptes Rendus Sommaire de la Société Géologique de France 1961:7-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

45554 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14330ETE R. Cousin, G. Breton, R. Fournier and J.-P. Watte. 1994. Dinosaur egglaying and nesting in France. K. Carpenter, K.F. Hirsch & J.R. Horner (eds.) Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 56-74 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/K. Maguire]
30849ETE P. Freytet. 1965. Découverte d'oeufs de dinosaures à Saint-André-de-Roquelongue (Aude) [Discovery of dinosaur eggs at Saint-André-de-Roquelongue (Aude)]. Bulletin de la Société d'Études Scientifiques de l'Aude 65:121-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14215ETE 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]