Where: Pays de la Loire, France (48.4° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Macrocephalites macrocephalus ammonoid zone, Marnes du Chevain Formation, Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; argillaceous limestone and gray marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Malherbe in 2000
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• discovered by amateur paleontologist Charles Malheurbe
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and N. Morel. 2009. A stegosaur vertebra (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of Sarthe, western France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 8:545-549 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 137256: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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