Also known as Havre
Where: Haute-Normandie, France (49.5° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 10.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pictonia baylei ammonoid zone, Marnes à Deltoideum delta Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• described only as coming from the "formations of la Hève" and the "beds of the Cap de la Hève"; lower Kimmeridgian according to Huene 1926. Also called the "Marnes à Deltoideum delta", Baylei Zone
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by G. Lennier in pre-1863
• collected by Lennier and presented to the École des Mines by Goldfuss
Primary reference: A. Valenciennes. 1863. D'une espèce de Chélonien fossile d'un genre nouveau, trouvé dans la craie du cap la Hève par M. Lennier, du Havre, et décrit par M. A. Valenciennes [On a species of fossil chelonian of a new genus, found in the chalk of Cape Hève by Mr. Lennier, of Havre, and described by Mr. A. Valenciennes]. Compte Rendu des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 46(8):317-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60398: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.05.2006, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea deltoidea" = Deltoideum (Deltoideum) delta4
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Reptilia | |
Megalosaurus insignis n. sp.4
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Trionyx primoevus n. sp.1
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"Emys dollfusii n. sp." = Emys dollfusii4, "Plesiochelys normandica n. sp." = Emys dollfusii1, Globochelus lennieri n. gen. n. sp.3
Globochelus lennieri n. gen. n. sp.3 de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2021 turtle MHNH 2016.38.5060 = MNHN 8917, shell, and several other referred specimens; all coming from the Kuenegel paleontological collection acquired by the Le Havre Museum after the war
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