Tournemire (Jurassic of France)

Where: Midi-Pyrenees, France (43.9° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleydellia aalensis ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• Pleydellia celtica subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

• "marnes feuilletees"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paleontology team of the Musée municipal de Millau in 1986

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Musée municipal de Millau (MMM)

Primary reference: N. Bardet, P. Godefroit, and J. Sciau. 1999. A new elasmosaurid Plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of southern France. Palaeontology 42(5):927-952 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90424: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Microcleididae
"Plesiosaurus tournemirensis n. sp." = Microcleidus tournemirensis
"Plesiosaurus tournemirensis n. sp." = Microcleidus tournemirensis Sciau et al. 1990 plesiosaur
MMM J. T. 86-100, skull and partial skeleton