Roquehautes, Crête du Marbre (RHM): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Cairanoolithidae
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Dughioolithus roussetensis
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 | |||||||||
| recombined as Cairanoolithus roussetensis | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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= Megaloolithus siruguei
Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
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Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 | |||||||||
| RHM-K | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | County: | Bouches-du-Rhône |
| Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 5.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.1° North, 4.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Rognacian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandy marl |
| Lithology description: "red, sandy marls" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mine-de-Marbre, Roques-Hautes | ||
| Database number: | 65348 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-21 08:34:44 | Last modified: | 2022-06-24 10:07:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-21 08:34:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52461. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 14217 | ETE | K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 88-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 44320 | M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano] | |
| 23594 | ETE | M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14215 | ETE | 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] |