Baudonvilliers tunnel (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Saint-Dizier

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (48.7° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Argile Ostréenne Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone

• "a constant bed of compact gray clays...perhaps a bit sandy or with rare ferruginous ooliths and some thin banks of hard, gray, marly limestone."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and V. Stchepinsky. 1968. Les Iguanodons de la région de Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne) [The iguanodonts of the Saint-Dizier region (Haute-Marne)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 266:1370-1372 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53675: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon bernissartensis
Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881 ornithopod
no. 752698, rib fragment