Roche de Mars, Porrentruy, pterosaur bone (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Jura, Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Orthaspidoceras schilleri ammonoid zone, Courtedoux Member (Reuchenette Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Depositional sequence is situated between the Banné and Virgula members; early Late Kimmeridgian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; glauconitic, muddy wackestone

• "Subtidal glauconite- or chamosite-bearing marly wacke- to packstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Section d'archéologie et paléontologie in 2000

• MJSN: Musée Jurassien des Sciences Naturelles, Porrentruy

Primary reference: J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2005. First record of a non-pterodactyloid pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) from Switzerland. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 98(3):313-317 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90874: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 21.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchinae indet.
Rhamphorhynchinae indet. Nopcsa 1928 pterosaur
MJSN RDM000-7, wing phalanx