Lapeyrouse quarry, Montmerle (Jurassic of France)

Where: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (46.1° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 14.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires marneux à Ptérocères Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• shallow infratidal setting
• "pseudo-oolitic limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Chanut in 1868

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1982. Le crocodilien Machimosaurus von Meyer (Mesosuchia, Teleosauridae) dans le Kimmeridgian de l'Ain. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 69(1, 2):17-26 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154818: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 14.03.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Machimosauridae
Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
skull