Where: Haute-Normandie, France (49.6° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Argiles d'Octeville Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "the upper Kimmeridgian clays that form the low cliffs are divided horizontally by a very hard gray limestone bench, called Lead of the Workers ("Plomb des Ouvriers"), whose thickness varies from 30 to 45 centimeters and which, over a length of 5 to 600 meters, presents an upward movement to the north." - -fossils from 70 cm below this bank.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray limestone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Rabeck & J. J. Stiegelmann in 1923

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Rabeck. 1925. Notes sur la découverte d'ossements de dinosaurien dans les argiles supérieures kimmeridgiennes du Cap de la Hève (Octeville-sur-Mer) [Note on the discovery of dinosaur bones in the upper Kimmeridgian clays of Cap de la Hève (Octeville-sur-Mer)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de Normandie 34:72-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173378: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2015

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