Alligny, Cosne (Jurassic of France)

Where: Bourgogne, France (47.5° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• "Alligny oolite"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Roussel; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140020: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Sauropterygia -
Sauropterygia indet. Owen 1859 diapsid
vertebra