Puits-de-la-Brême (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Puits-de-la-Breme, Doubs, Puits de Breme

Where: Franche-Comté, France (47.1° N, 6.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, ooidal carbonate

• ferruginous oolite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1820s

Primary reference: W. Buckland. 1836. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume II. William Pickering, London 1-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67993: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
postcranial elements; originally identifed as plesiosaur
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
jaw, sacral vertebrae, 3 metatarsals, 3 dorsal vertebrae, rib fragments