Grandpré, Ardennes (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Huene 89, Sauvage

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (49.3° N, 4.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.5° N, 28.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Douvilleiceras mammillatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Albian (113.2 - 110.1 Ma)

• "Gault"-age, level with Ammonites milletianus and A. mammillaris. Phosphatic nodules at the base of the Gault.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, nodular, phosphatic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Barrois

• Repository: Lille Museum

Primary reference: C. Barrois. 1874. Catalogue des poissons fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Nord de la France. Bulletin Scientifique, Historique et Littéraire du Département du Nord et des Pays Voisins 6:101-110more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55335: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.10.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
"Chimaera egertoni" = Ischyodus egertoni, "Chimaera townsendi" = Ischyodus townsendi
"Chimaera egertoni" = Ischyodus egertoni Buckland 1835 plownose chimaera
"Chimaera townsendi" = Ischyodus townsendi Buckland 1835 plownose chimaera
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatidae indet. Bonaparte 1838 eagle ray
  -
"Sphenodus ? planus" = Sphenodus plana
"Sphenodus ? planus" = Sphenodus plana Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
"Lamna acuminata" = Acrolamna acuminata, "Oxyrhina mantelli" = Cretoxyrhina mantelli
"Lamna acuminata" = Acrolamna acuminata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
"Oxyrhina mantelli" = Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
"Oxyrhina crassidens" = Cretodus crassidens, "Otodus sulcatus" = Cretodus semiplicatus
"Oxyrhina crassidens" = Cretodus crassidens Dixon 1850 mackerel shark
"Otodus sulcatus" = Cretodus semiplicatus Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Odontaspis bronnii" = Palaeohypotodus bronni
"Odontaspis bronnii" = Palaeohypotodus bronni Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark
  -
Sphenodus longidens Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
 Odontaspidida - Isuridae
"Oxyrhina" subinflata Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
Osteichthyes
 Neopterygii - Sphaerodontidae
Sphaerodus neocomiensis Gervais 1852 ray-finned fish
Sphaerodus mitrula Agassiz 1839 ray-finned fish
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus complanatus Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish
Pycnodus couloni Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
Reptilia
  -
? Reptilia indet.2 Laurenti 1768 reptile
Teeth
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus latispinus1 Owen 1854 plesiosaur
dorsal vertebra
Plesiosaurus pachyomus1 Owen 1840 plesiosaur
vertebrae
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus sp.1 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
teeth
 Plesiosauria -
Polyptychodon interruptus1 Owen 1841 plesiosaur
teeth
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
"Ichthyosaurus campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon1
"Ichthyosaurus campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon1 Carter 1846 ichthyosaur
vertebrae, tooth
 Saurischia - Metriacanthosauridae
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus3
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus3 Sauvage 1882 allosauroid
vertebra, possibly sacral
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Hylaeosaurus armatus1 Mantell 1833 ankylosaur
scute