Also known as Carrière de la Compagnie Solvay; "French Bothriospondylus"

Where: Franche-Comté, France (47.1° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires de Clerval Formation, Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Calcaires de Clerval Formation, possibly from the Tidalites de Mouchard Member. The age is constrained to the Rotoides or Stenocycloides subzones, late middle Oxfordian to early late Oxfordian (Mannion et al. 2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; fine-grained limestone and gray, argillaceous, calcareous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. de Dorlodot in 1934; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• discovered by Baron J. de Dordolot

Primary reference: J. d. Dorlodot. 1934. L’exploration du gîte à dinosauriens Jurassiques de Damparis [Exploration of the Juraassic dinosaur locality in Damparis]. La Terre et la Vie 4(10):563-586 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85257: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.12.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

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