La Poterie, Wimille (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Boulonnais, Boulogne-sur-mer

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.7° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• "upper Portlandian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous sandstone

• "sables ferrugineux"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dutertre-Delporte, Prévost in 1839

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1874. Mémoire sur les dinosauriens et les crocodiliens des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-Mer [Memoir on the dinosaurs and crocodilians of the Jurassic deposits of Boulogne-sur-mer]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, série 2 10(2):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48879: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
MHNB 231 (AN 1423); humerus or femur?
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus phillipsi Sauvage 1871 plesiosaur
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae