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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Megalosaurus meriani n. sp.
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"Ornithopsis greppini n. sp." = Amanzia greppini1 Huene 1922 sauropod NMNB MH 260, 341, 349, 372 (orig. part of M. meriani type)
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