Foreshore, Bénerville-sur-Mer: Late/Upper Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Tylasteria prisca (Valette 1928)
1 specimen
1 arm tip
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Pentasteria recta (McCoy 1848)
1 specimen
1 arm fragment
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos Young et al. 2013
Foffa and Young 2014 1 specimen
incomplete skull. Part of the Joaquim Gameiro private collection, see Lepage et al. (2008).
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 0.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes de Dives
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97871
Authorizer:L. Villier, P. Mannion Enterer:L. Villier, J. Tennant
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-09-03 07:35:39 Last modified:2010-09-03 10:35:39
Access level:the public Released:2010-09-03 07:35:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33830. L. Hüne and P. Hüne. 2008. Découverte de deux bras d'étoiles de mer dans le Callovien supérieur de Bénerville-sur-Mer (Calvados, France). L'écho des falaises 12:59-65 [L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

53049 D. Foffa and M. T. Young. 2014. The cranial osteology of Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos (Crocodylomorpha: Metriorhynchidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Europe. PeerJ 2:e608 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]