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==Fossil content== | ==Fossil content== | ||
[[File:Peinten dinosaur fossil-2.jpg|thumb|Dunairdsaurus still in rock from [[Great Lime Quarry]]]] | [[File:Peinten dinosaur fossil-2.jpg|thumb|''[[Dunairdsaurus]]'' still in rock from [[Great Lime Quarry]]]] | ||
[[File:Steinbruchwand_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|Pas-en-Fair Quarry in [[Vollardie]], [[Yonderre]], showing the sedimentary rock of the Greater Levantine Formation]] | [[File:Steinbruchwand_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|Pas-en-Fair Quarry in [[Vollardie]], [[Yonderre]], showing the sedimentary rock of the Greater Levantine Formation]] | ||
Though many of the Greater Levantine Formation fossils are fragmentary, they are sufficient to provide a good picture of the flora and fauna in the Levantine Basin during the Late Jurassic period. Overall, the climate was dry, similar to a savanna but, since there were no angiosperms (grasses, flowers, and some trees), the flora was quite different. Conifers, the dominant plants of the time, were to be found with ginkgos, cycads, tree ferns, and horsetail rushes. Much of the fossilized vegetation was riparian, living along the river flood plains. Along the rivers, there were fish, frogs, salamanders, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, pterosaurs, crayfish, clams, and mammaliforms. | Though many of the Greater Levantine Formation fossils are fragmentary, they are sufficient to provide a good picture of the flora and fauna in the Levantine Basin during the Late Jurassic period. Overall, the climate was dry, similar to a savanna but, since there were no angiosperms (grasses, flowers, and some trees), the flora was quite different. Conifers, the dominant plants of the time, were to be found with ginkgos, cycads, tree ferns, and horsetail rushes. Much of the fossilized vegetation was riparian, living along the river flood plains. Along the rivers, there were fish, frogs, salamanders, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, pterosaurs, crayfish, clams, and mammaliforms. | ||
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====Yonderre==== | ====Yonderre==== | ||
* [[Pas-en-Fair Quarry]]: A former sandstone quarry in [[Donne]] from which three partial ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' specimens have been recovered as well as numerous crocodillians, mammals and fossilized plant matter. | * [[Pas-en-Fair Quarry]]: A former sandstone quarry in [[Donne]] from which three partial ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' specimens have been recovered as well as numerous crocodillians, mammals and fossilized plant matter. | ||
* [[Vollardic Mountains]]: Since they were first excavated in the 1860s the numerous quarries and mines in [[Vollardie]] have yielded great numbers of fossilized dinosaurs including the eponymous ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'', ''[[Joanusaurus]]'', ''[[Macrilaimos]]'', ''[[Aescaractapelta]]'' and more. | * [[Vollardic Mountains]]: Since they were first excavated in the 1860s the numerous quarries and mines in [[Vollardie]] have yielded great numbers of fossilized dinosaurs including the eponymous ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'', ''[[Joanusaurus]]'', ''[[Macrilaimos]]'', ''[[Aescaractapelta]]'' and more. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||