Where: Bern, Switzerland (47.2° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 16.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Reuchenette Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• probably lower part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; peloidal, shelly/skeletal packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected in 1989
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. O. J. Mouchet. 1993. A new sauropods printsite from the Upper Jurassic of northern Switzerland ("Kimmeridgian"; Montbautier, Kt. Bern). Revue de Paléobiologie 12(2):345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 67986: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.12.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Reptilia | |
cf. Breviparopus sp. Dutuit and Ouazzou 1980 sauropod | |
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |