Where: Bern, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Reuchenette Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Lower part of the Reuchenette Formation (divisum zone), early Kimmeridgian (Late

•Jurassic)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lenticular, concretionary, green, calcareous, carbonaceous marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by Greppin in the 1860s

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J.-B. Greppin. 1870. Description géologique du Jura Bernois et de quelques districts adjacents, compris dans la feuille VII de l'Atlas Fédéral [Geological description of the Bernese Jura and several adjacent districts, included in sheet VII of the Federal Atlas]. Materiaux pour la Carte Géologique de La Suisse 8:1-357 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49653: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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