Basse Montagne Quarry, Moutier: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Switzerland
collected by Greppin 1860

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Megalosaurus meriani n. sp. Greppin 1870
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Ceratosauria
tooth, NMNB MH 350
Ornithopsis greppini n. sp. Huene 1922
Huene 1922 3 individuals
recombined as Amanzia greppini
NMNB MH 260, 341, 349, 372 (orig. part of M. meriani type)
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Huene 1922 1 specimen
NMNB MH 353
    = Amanzia greppini Huene 1922
Schwarz et al. 2020
Reptilia - Teleosauridae
? Dacosaurus sp. (Quenstedt 1856)
Huene 1922 3 specimens
NMNB MH 352, 354, 355
    = Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837
Meyer and Thüring 2003
    = Teleosauridae indet. Geoffroy 1831
Schwarz et al. 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Bern
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 7.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.3° North, 16.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Reuchenette
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Reuchenette Formation (divisum zone), early Kimmeridgian (Late
Jurassic)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,concretionary,green calcareous,carbonaceous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a greenish lens of marls and limestone...Removed matrix contained charcoal remains as well as fist-sized rhizolith concretions embedded in a clay matrix."
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: "deposition in an ephemeral lake without transport by currents"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,soft parts
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Greppin Collection dates:1860s
Metadata
Database number:49653
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-21 13:18:46 Last modified:2021-11-10 13:21:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-21 13:18:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30622.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

52718 F. v. Huene. 1922. Ueber einem Sauropoden im obern Malm des Berner Jura [On a sauropod in the upper Malm of the Bernese Jura]. Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae 17:80-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14128ETE F. v. Huene. 1926. The carnivorous Saurischia in the Jura and Cretaceous formations, principally in Europe. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:35-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13300ETE J. H. Madsen Jr. and S. P. Welles. 2000. Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda): a revised osteology. Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publications 00-2:1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42539 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, O. Mateus, R. N. Barnes, and M. E. H. Jones. 2012. New information on the anatomy and systematic position of Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal, with a review of European diplodocoids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(3):521-551 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
76597 D. Marty, M. Belvedere, N. L. Razzolini, M. G. Lockley, G. Paratte, M. Cattin, C. Lovis and C. A. Meyer. 2018. The tracks of giant theropods (Jurabrontes curtedulensis ichnogen. & ichnosp. nov.) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland: palaeoecological & palaeogeographical implications. Historical Biology 30:928-956 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43202 D. Marty and C. A. Meyer. 2012. From sauropods to cycads—the Late Jurassic terrestrial record of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. Programme, Abstracts, and Field Guides (F. Witzmann & M. Aberhan, eds). Terra Nostra 2012(3):119-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78586 C. A. Meyer. 1990. Sauropod tracks from the Upper Jurassic Reuchenette Formation (Kimmeridgian; Lommiswil, Kt. Solothurn) of northern Switzerland. Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae 83(2):389-397 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30215ETE C. A. Meyer and B. Thüring. 2003. Dinosaurs of Switzerland. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:103-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71775 D. Schwarz, P. D. Mannion, O. Wings and C. A. Meyer. 2020. Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia (“Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus”) greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113:2:1-48 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
19844ETE D. Schwarz, O. Wings, and C. A. Meyer. 2007. Super sizing the giants: first cartilage preservation at a sauropod dinosaur limb joint. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164:61-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53120 M. T. Young, S. Hua, L. Steel, D. Foffa, S. L. Brusatte, S. Thuring, O. Mateus, J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca, P. Havlik, Y. Lepage, and M. B. Andrade. 2014. Revision of the Late Jurassic teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia). Royal Society Open Science 1:140222 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]