Provenchères-sur-Meuse (Triassic of France)

Where: Champagne-Ardennes, France (48.0° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès de Infralias Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• originally "infra-Lias"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139922: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
"Thecodontosaurus elisae n. sp." = Plateosaurus elizae2
"Thecodontosaurus elisae n. sp." = Plateosaurus elizae2 Sauvage 1907 plateosaurid
tooth
 Saurischia -
Gresslyosaurus sp.1
Gresslyosaurus sp.1 Rütimeyer 1856 Gressly's lizard
claw
 Sauropterygia -
Plesiosaurus carinatus2
Plesiosaurus carinatus2 Cuvier 1824 plesiosaur
vertebrae
 Ichthyosauria - Shastasauridae
? Ichthyosaurus cf. rheticus2
? Ichthyosaurus cf. rheticus2 Sauvage 1876 ichthyosaur
vertebra
1Lapparent 1967; 2Sauvage 1907