Le Wast (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Boulogne-sur-Mer, Boulonnais

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.8° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quenstedtoceras lamberti ammonoid zone, Oxford Clay Formation (Ancholme Group), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• listed as beds with Ammonites lamberti, which makes this uppermost Callovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Leblanc

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1873. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 3 1:365-386 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119668: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus sp.1 Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
teeth
 Loricata -
"Steneosaurus edwardsi" = Neosteneosaurus edwardsi1
"Steneosaurus edwardsi" = Neosteneosaurus edwardsi1 Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867 marine crocodile
snout
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Liopleurodon ferox n. gen. n. sp. Sauvage 1873 plesiosaur
holotype tooth
Peloneustes philarchus2 Seeley 1869 plesiosaur