Attancourt (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (48.5° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires à Spatangues Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; coarse-grained, glauconitic, brown, yellow limestone

• "coarse, heterogeneous, glauconitic, beige to yellowish brown limestone, extremely rich in fossils, of varying hardness"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cornuel

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and P. Wellnhofer. 1983. Un reste de Ptérosaurien dans l'Hauterivien (Crétacé inférieur) de la Haute-Marne. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 25(1):111-115 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94138: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Ornithocheirus sp.
Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869 pterosaur
Musee de Saint-Dizier, proximal ulna