Ville-en-Blaisois (Jurassic of France)

Where: Haute-Marne, France (48.4° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 14.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cyprina brongniarti other zone, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Cyprina brongniarti zone, lower Portlandian, probably the "calcaire tubuleux" layer

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• "shallow marine environment"
• "a hard greyish limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Pictet in 1872

Primary reference: F.-J. Pictet. 1872. Reptiles et poissons [Reptiles and fishes]. In P. de Loriol, E. Royer & H. Tombeck (eds.), Description Géologique et Paléontologique des Étages Jurassiques Supérieurs de la Haute-Marne. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 16:9-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35911: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasauridae indet.
Camarasauridae indet. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
"une série de vertèbres caudales qui rappellent un peu celles des Megalosaurus..."