Saint-Jouin ichthyosaur (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Saint−Jouin−Bruneval; Platypterygius hercynicus referred specimen

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.6° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras inflatum ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• early Callihoplites auritus Subzone; Mortoniceras inflatum Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

• glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Debris; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1977. Remarques preliminaires sur l'ichthyosaur de Saint-Jouin. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Normandie et des amies du Museum du Havre 64(1):17-19 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 109057: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.05.2011, edited by Valentin Fischer and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
cf. Platypterygius hercynicus2 Kuhn 1946 ichthyosaur
MHNH 2010.4.19_20,28 (quadratojugal, tooth, jugal)
Platypterygius hercynicus1 Kuhn 1946 ichthyosaur