Terrain à chailles of Grellingen, close to Basel (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Baselland, Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• Rauracien, Lower Malm

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Peyer and E. Koechlin. 1934. Ein Saurierwirbel aus dem Terrain à chailles von Grellingen (Berner Jura); (A sauromorph vertebra from Terrain à chailles of Grellingen (Berner Jura)). Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 45:68-75 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48614: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.03.2005, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
 Terebratulida - Dictyothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Thurmannella obtrita Defrance 1828
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur