Where: Jura, Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Reuchenette Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
•et al., 2007; Marty, 2008), and the Virgula Marls (Jank et al., 2006). Most of the Tropidemys langii specimens were found in the ∼10-m-thick Bann´eMarls, which consist of “grey, decimeterthick layers of marlstones, calcarenitic marls, and marly limestones” (Jank et al., 2006:178). The Bann´e Marls are assigned to
•the Divisum ammonite zone of the Tethyan realm (Jank et al., 2006).
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Palaeontology A16 in 2006
Primary reference: C. Puntener, J.-P. Billon-Bruyat, L. Bocat, J.-P. Berger, and W. G. Joyce. 2014. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the turtle Tropidemys langii Rutimeyer, 1873, based on new specimens from the Kimmeridgian of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):353-374 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154713: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.03.2014, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Tropidemys langii Rütimeyer 1873 turtle | |
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