Lapeyrouse quarry, Montmerle: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, France
collected by Chanut 1868
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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cf. Steneosaurus edwardsi
Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867
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Eudes-Deslongchamps 1868 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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= Machimosaurus hugii
Meyer 1837
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Buffetaut 1982 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | County: | Ain |
| Coordinates: | 46.1° North, 4.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° North, 14.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Calcaires marneux à Ptérocères |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "pseudo-oolitic limestones" | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: shallow infratidal setting | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Chanut | Collection dates: | 1868 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 154818 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Tennant, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-03-14 10:34:01 | Last modified: | 2023-03-13 14:37:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-03-14 10:34:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50385. | E. Buffetaut. 1982. Le crocodilien Machimosaurus von Meyer (Mesosuchia, Teleosauridae) dans le Kimmeridgian de l'Ain. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 69(1, 2):17-26 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |
Secondary references:
| 67793 | E. Eudes-Deslongchamps. 1868. Note sur le Squelette et la Restauration du Teleosaurus cadomensis [Note on the skeleton and restoration of Teleosaurus cadomensis]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, série 2 2:381-473 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Carrano] |