- Source: Reuchenette Formation
The Reuchenette Formation is a Jurassic geologic formation in Switzerland. It is Kimmeridgian in age and predominantly consists of well stratified limestone, with lithology variable both laterally and stratigraphically including wackestones, packstones and grainstones, as well as mudstone. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, including the Turiasaurian sauropod Amanzia greppini, alongside a theropod tooth belonging to Ceratosauria indet, originally assigned to Megalosaurus meriani. teleosaurid crocodyliformes are also known, including Sericodon, Proexochokefalos and Machimosaurus. The metriorhynchid thalatosuchians Torvoneustes and Dakosaurus. The hybodontid shark Asteracanthus. The thalassochelydian turtle Thalassemys and Solnhofia is known from the formation, as is the platychelyid turtles Platychelys, and the plesiochelyid turtle Plesiochelys.
Vertebrate Fauna
= Ray-finned fish
== Lobe-finned fish
== Cartilaginous fish
== Reptiles
=Testudinata
Crocodylomorpha
Dinosauria
Pterosauria
Invertebrate Fauna
= Cephalopoda
=See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
Footnotes
References
Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.