Montbautier tracksite (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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

• "a limestone consisting of a packstone with peloids, micritised echinoid and shell fragments and rare foraminifera (miliolids mainly)."

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
 Saurischia - Parabrontopodidae
cf. Breviparopus sp. Dutuit and Ouazzou 1980 sauropod
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839