Also known as ETE Locality 1519, Cran du Midi, Cran du Nord

Where: Sauerland, Belgium (50.5° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation, Barremian to Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• 2 layers within mine; age middle Barremian to earliest Aptian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; black claystone and bituminous coal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: trace, coprolite

Collected by Sohier, Sonnet, De Pauw in 1878-1881

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• discovered March 1878 by coal miners

Primary reference: G. A. Boulenger. 1881. Sur l'arc pelvien chez les dinosauriens de Bernissart [On the pelvic arch in the dinosaurs of Bernissart]. Bulletins de L'Académie royale de Belgique, 3eme série 1(5):1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22645: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001, edited by Matt Carrano, Roger Benson, John Alroy, Jered Karr, Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

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