Octeville (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Ichthyosaur locality

Where: Normandy, France (49.6° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H.-A. Blain, G. Pennetier, and E. Pennetier. 2003. Présence du genre Platypterygius (Ichthyosauria, Reptilia) dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Villers-sur-Mer (Normandie, France). L’Echo des Falaises 7:35-49 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142840: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 17.04.2013, edited by Valentin Fischer

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 ichthyosaur
Three centra an two ribs
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
"Platypterygius campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon
"Platypterygius campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon Carter 1846 ichthyosaur