Falaises des Vaches Noires (Jurassic to of France)

Also known as Steneosaurus edwardsi type locality

Where: Calvados, France (49.4° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes de Dives Formation, Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

• Possibly from the Marnes de Villers Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young, L. Steel and Y. Lepage. 2015. Steneosaurus edwardsi (Thalattosuchia: Teleosauridae), the largest known crocodylomorph of the Middle Jurassic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 115:911-918 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172677: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 17.08.2015, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus roissyi n. sp. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1868 marine crocodile
 Loricata -
"Steneosaurus edwardsi n. sp." = Neosteneosaurus edwardsi
"Steneosaurus edwardsi n. sp." = Neosteneosaurus edwardsi Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867 marine crocodile
MNHN.F RJN 118, incomplete skull