This new discovery adds a very nice sample to the broad picture of the world in which dinosaurs lived about five million years before the extinction episode at about 65 million years ago. The fauna is associated with a freeshwater environment complete with clams, fishes, turtle and alligators, and as such will likely prove to represent a flood event in which hapless dinosaurs were unable to escape. There are comparable mass death events seen in the better studied record of Western North America, but American faunas are dominated by duckbilled dinosaurs, not the sauropods seen in this new European discovery. The fauna is not very diverse as would be expected if it was a flood event; whatever was living in the path of the water was swept away and rapidly buried. Ironically, it is likely that the smallest of the fossils, best seen with the aid of microscopes, tiny mammal teeth and even spores and pollen, will provide the best environmental information from the locality. The presence of warmth loving forms such as alligators highlights the nature of world climate at the time; no ice, warm even temperatures and as data shows, high levels of CO2 (perhaps 8-10 times modern levels) and more oxygen in the atmosphere. The best record of climate change on this planet is found in the record of rocks over the 4.5 billion years of Earth History, not in the politics of the moment.