Conteville, Calvados: Middle Bathonian, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Gastropoda
- Pleurotomariidae
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Pyrgotrochus sp.
Fischer 1885
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pleuromyidae
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Pleuromya uniformis
Sowerby 1813
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium corneolum
(Young and Bird 1828)
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recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Limatula gibbosa
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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Gervillella acuta
(Sowerby 1826)
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
- Belemnopseidae
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Belemnopsis fusiformis
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Oppeliidae
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Oxycerites sp.
Rollier 1909
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Perisphinctidae
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Procerites sp.
Siemiradzki 1898
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Procerites progracilis
Cox and Arkell 1950
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recombined as Gracilisphinctes (Gracilisphinctes) progracilis | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Loboidothyrididae
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Cererithyris intermedia
(Sowerby 1812)
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Zeilleriidae
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Rugitela cadomensis
(Deslongchamps 1867)
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Tetrarhynchiidae
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Kallirhynchia concinna
(Sowerby 1815)
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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Polyacrodus sp.
Jaekel 1889
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Chondrichthyes
- Synechodontiformes
- Paraorthacodontidae
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Paraorthacodus sp.
Glikman 1957
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Actinopteri
- Leptolepidiformes
- Leptolepididae
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Leptolepis sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Megalosauridae
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? Poekilopleuron valesdunensis n. sp.
Allain 2002
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1 individual | |||||||||
recombined as Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis | ||||||||||
(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Basse-Normandie | County: | Calvados |
Coordinates: | 49.4° North, 0.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 10.7° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 4 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
*Period: | Middle Jurassic | ||
*International age/stage: | Middle Bathonian | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Bathonian | Ammonoid zone: | Procerites progracilis |
Age range of interval: | 168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Calcaires de Caen | Member: | Pierre de Caen |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | burrows "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "Pierre de Caen is an homogenous, fine-grained biomicrite...the bank in which the bones of the new theropod were collected is intersected by siliceous peg-like structures...interpreted as roots of mangrove trees and burrows." | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: "low-energy, subtidal environment" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Associated major elements: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,chemical,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 28444 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-02-13 20:31:55 | Last modified: | 2009-10-21 10:45:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-13 20:31:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
7839. | R. Allain. 2002. Discovery of megalosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Middle Bathonian of Normandy (France) and its implications for the phylogeny of basal Tetanurae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):548-563 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
16601 | ETE | R. Allain. 2005. The postcranial anatomy of the megalosaur Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy, France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):850-858 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |