Eric Buffetaut

Haiyan Tong, Raymond Tomasson

Academic paper

Bulletin d'Information des Geologues du Bassin de Paris (June 2003)

40

2

33-43

The exploitation of clay and limestone quarries, as well as excavation works in connection with the canal from the Aube River to the Aube reservoir, have yielded remains of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous reptiles during the last decades of the 20th century. The specimens come from Dolancourt (Late Jurassic ichthyosaur), Unienville (early Barremian sea turtle, Iguanodon, and elasmosaurid), "Courcelles" (Clerey; middle Albian plesiosaur) and Vallentigny (Albian ichthyosaur). These finds are an addition to earlier ones, both from Aube and from neighbouring areas, and provide new evidence about the vertebrate fauna of the eastern Paris Basin in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

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