Reuchenette Formation

{{Short description|Jurassic-era geologic formation in Switzerland}}

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| name = Reuchenette Formation

| image =Péry-Reuchenette Oxfordian.JPG

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| type = Geological formation

| age = Kimmeridgian,
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| period = Kimmeridgian

| prilithology = Limestone

| otherlithology = Mudstone

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| region = Europe

| country = Switzerland

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| subunits = Membre de Chevenez, Membre de Courtedoux, Marne du Banné, Membre de Vabenau

| underlies = Twannbach Formation

| overlies = Formation de Court, Balsthal-Formation, Membre de Porrentruy, Verena-Member, Holzflue-Member, Formation de Courgenay

| thickness = 140 metres average, 160 m in type area.

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.strati.ch/en/show/jur/jur/reuchenette-formation-de-...|title=Reuchenette Formation|last=|first=|date=|website=strati.ch|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} 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.{{Cite journal|last1=Schwarz|first1=Daniela|last2=Mannion|first2=Philip D.|last3=Wings|first3=Oliver|last4=Meyer|first4=Christian A.|date=December 2020|title=Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland|journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences|language=en|volume=113|issue=1|pages=2|doi=10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5|issn=1661-8726|doi-access=free|bibcode=2020SwJG..113....2S }} teleosaurid crocodyliformes are also known, including Sericodon, Proexochokefalos and Machimosaurus.{{cite journal|last1=Johnson|first1=Michela M.|last2=Young|first2=Mark T.|last3=Brusatte|first3=Stephen L.|date=2020|title=The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution|journal=PeerJ|volume=8|pages=e9808| pmid=33083104| doi=10.7717/peerj.9808|pmc=7548081 |doi-access=free}} The metriorhynchid thalatosuchians Torvoneustes{{Cite journal|last1=Girard |first1=L. C. |last2=De Sousa Oliveira |first2=S. |last3=Raselli |first3=I. |last4=Martin |first4=J. E. |last5=Anquetin |first5=J. |year=2023 |title=Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of Torvoneustes (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian of Switzerland |journal=PeerJ |volume=11 |at=e15512 |doi=10.7717/peerj.15512 |pmid=37483966 |pmc=10362849 |doi-access=free }} and Dakosaurus. The hybodontid shark Asteracanthus.{{Cite journal|author1=Léa Leuzinger |author2=Gilles Cuny |author3=Evgeny Popov |author4=Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat |year=2017 |title=A new chondrichthyan fauna from the Late Jurassic of the Swiss Jura (Kimmeridgian) dominated by hybodonts, chimaeroids and guitarfishes |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=471–511 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1085 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017PPal....3..471L |hdl=11336/41081 |hdl-access=free }} The thalassochelydian turtle Thalassemys{{cite journal|last1=Anquetin|first1=J.|last2=Püntener|first2=C.|last3=Joyce|first3=W.G.|year=2017|title=A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia|journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History|volume=58|issue=2|pages=317–369|doi=10.3374/014.058.0205|bibcode=2017BPMNH..58..317A |s2cid=31091127|url=https://doc.rero.ch/record/305668/files/joy_rfr.pdf}} and Solnhofia is known from the formation,{{Cite journal|last1=Anquetin|first1=Jérémy|last2=Püntener|first2=Christian|date=2020-11-12|title=A new species of the large-headed coastal marine turtle Solnhofia (Testudinata, Thalassochelydia) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland|journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=8|pages=e9931|pmid=33240584 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9931|pmc=7666818 |issn=2167-8359|doi-access=free}} as is the platychelyid turtles Platychelys,{{Cite journal|last1=Sullivan|first1=Patrick M.|last2=Joyce|first2=Walter G.|date=August 2017|title=The shell and pelvic anatomy of the Late Jurassic turtle Platychelys oberndorferi based on material from Solothurn, Switzerland|url=https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s13358-017-0136-7|journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology|language=en|volume=136|issue=2|pages=323–343|doi=10.1007/s13358-017-0136-7|bibcode=2017SwJP..136..323S |issn=1664-2376|url-access=subscription}} and the plesiochelyid turtle Plesiochelys.{{cite journal |author1=Christian Püntener |author2=Jérémy Anquetin |author3=Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat |year=2017 |title=The comparative osteology of Plesiochelys bigleri n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland) |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3482 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3482 |pmid=28674653 |pmc=5493033 |doi-access=free }}