Where: Grand Est, France (48.6° N, 6.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 15.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper Muschelkalk (Ladinian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cuvier, Girardeau; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137680: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 18.12.2012, edited by Roger Benson, Matthew Carrano and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Simosaurus gaillardoti n. gen. n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti2, "Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti
"Simosaurus gaillardoti n. gen. n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti2 Meyer and Plieninger 1842 nothosaur Specimens, including the lost holotype skull first reported by Meyer (1847)
"Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger 1842 nothosaur | |
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Cyamodus sp.3 von Meyer 1863 placodont "isolated teeth referred to Cyamodus", first reported by Corroy (1928)
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"Nothosaurus andriani" = Nothosaurus giganteus Münster 1834 diapsid MHNP 9115 (skull; original of Gervais 1859, Plate 55, fig. 4); MHNP 9115 (neural arch)
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Thecodontosaurus latespinatus n. sp.1
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| Amphibia | |
"Labyrinthodon sp." = Mastodonsaurus
"Labyrinthodon sp." = Mastodonsaurus Jaeger 1828 tetrapod | |
"Plagiosuchus pustuloglomeratus" = Gerrothorax pulcherrimus4
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| Chondrichthyes | |
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