Previously, only one nesting site had been discovered in Provence, a few minor sites on either side of the Pyrenees and a few isolated sites in Languedoc. The Mèze site, which is just starting to provide information, is by far the most important by its size, the density of the
finds, and by the methodical, scientific exploration techniques being used. It suggests that suitable sites for the dinosaurs to lay their eggs stretched in a continuous band all along the Durancian
Isthmus.
This is in fact what occurred in a wide band of low-lying land (the Durancian Isthmus) which ran from what is now French Provence to northern Spain, jutting out into what has since become the Mediterranean (the Mediterranean, the Alps and the Pyrenees did not exist at the time).
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