La Brière cliffs, Octeville: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, France
collected by G. Boiné
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| marine bivalves | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Dacentrurus lennieri
(Nopcsa 1911)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Dacentrurus | ||||||||||
| Boine A, femur | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Haute-Normandie | County: | Seine-Maritime |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 0.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 10.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 24 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Ammonoid zone: | Aulacostephanus mutabilis |
| Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Argiles d'Octeville | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: unit equivalent to Lower Kimmeridge Clay; Aulacostephanus mutabilis Zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | G. Boiné |
Metadata
| Database number: | 47423 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-02-24 10:35:37 | Last modified: | 2013-03-20 10:44:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-24 10:35:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12728. | ETE | P. M. Galton and G. Boiné. 1980. A stegosaurian dinosaur femur from the Kimmeridge Beds (Upper Jurassic) of the Cap de la Hève, Normandy. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre 17(4 (4e tr.)):31-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 45554 | E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 25597 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1990. A partial skeleton of the stegosaurian dinosaur Lexovisaurus from the uppermost Lower Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of Normandy, France. Geologica et Palaeontologica 24:185-199 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 25691 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1991. Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal. Geologica et Palaeontologica 25:299-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |