Also known as Normannognathus holotype site
Where: Haute-Normandie, France (49.6° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: mutabilis zone, lower Member (Argiles d'Octeville Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• lallierianum Subzone, top of the lallierianum level, level X.11 (ammonite-bearing discontinuity)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.-J. Lepage in 1993
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, J.-J. Lepage, and G. Lepage. 1998. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian of the Cap de la Hève (Normandy, France). Geological Magazine 135:719-722 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89972: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.06.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhamphorhynchoidea indet., Normannognathus wellnhoferi n. gen. n. sp.
Normannognathus wellnhoferi n. gen. n. sp. Buffetaut et al. 1998 pterosaur Holotype, associated upper and lower jaws
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