Also known as Rennes-le-Château, Espéraza

Where: Languedoc-Roussillon, France (42.9° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de la Maurine Member (Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• Continental equivalent is Begudo-Rognacian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Sorgesa, Kiess, Clottes & Raynaud in 1982

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• two nesting sites found with 35 unhatched eggs. Molds were taken of three hatched eggs.

Primary reference: P. Clottes and C. Raynaud. 1983. Le gisement à dinosauriens de Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Observations préliminaires. Premiers résultats [The dinosaur locality at Campagne-sur-Aude–Esperaza. Preliminary observations. First results]. Bulletin de la Société d'Études Scientifiques de l'Aude 83:5-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53480: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 09.09.2005, edited by Matt Carrano

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