Also known as Cap de la Hève

Where: Haute-Normandie, France (49.6° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation = Lower Kimmeridge Clay in part; Aulacostephanus mutabilis zone; also listed as "Argiles à Ammonites"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Savalle & G. Lennier in Apr-Sep 1898

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• destroyed along with Muséum du Havre in 1944. Some report suggest excavation took place 1896–1897, but Lepage et al. 2018 indicate it was in 1898.

Primary reference: G. Lennier. 1898. [Note on the discovery of a dinosaur at Octeville]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 4:317-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47420: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2005

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