Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.3° N, 0.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes de Dives Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• "Argile de Dives" presumably = Marnes de Dives
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Tesson in the 1850s; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52633: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.08.2005, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pliosaurus ferox" = Liopleurodon ferox1
"Pliosaurus ferox" = Liopleurodon ferox1 Sauvage 1873 plesiosaur BMNH 32648, a posterior tooth, purchased 1857
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Dakosaurus "Vaches Noire sp."2 Quenstedt 1856 marine crocodile NHMUK-PV OR 32643, 32644, 32648: isolated teeth
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