Sapogne-et-Feuchères quarry (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Charleville-Mézières

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.7° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oolithe miliaire Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• from the "Oolithe miliaire"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "a shallow marine environment (not deeper than 10 to 20 m), close to a shoreline (5 to 15 km offshore at most)"
• "a detritic facies, with abundant quartz grains, shell fragments and broken oolites...hard oolitic limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Delacroix

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, B. Gibout, I. Launois and C. Delacroix. 2011. The sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus OWEN in the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Ardennes (NE France): insular, but not dwarf. Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology 2011/06:149-161 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150700: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Cetiosaurus sp. Owen 1841 sauropod
Musée des Minéraux, Roches et Fossiles des Ardennes, Bogny-sur-Meuse, n° A775; chevron