Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.1° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sables de Glos Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• upper part of formation; upper subzone (Regulare) of the Serratum zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; concretionary, ferruginous, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Milsent, M. Bülow, Université Paris-VI
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, M. Bülow, E., J.-J. Jaeger, M. Martin, J.-M. Mazin, C. Milsent and M. Rioult. 1985. Zonation biostratigraphique et nouveaux restes de Vertébrés dans les "Sables de Glos" (Oxfordien supérieur, Normandie) [Biostratigraphic zonation and new vertebrate remains in the "Sables de Glos" (upper Oxfordian, Normandy)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 300(18):929-932 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74916: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.09.2007, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
| |
| |
| |
Steneosaurus jugleri marine crocodile | |
Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile | |
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur | |
? Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871 lepidosaur | |
Durotrigia cf. triconidens Hoffstetter 1967 lizard | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Gnathostomata | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883 | |
Caturus sp. Agassiz 1834 bowfin
Caturus cf. driani bowfin | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar | |
"Microdon sp." = Polypsephis
"Microdon sp." = Polypsephis Hay 1899 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Chimaeriformes indet. Obruchev 1953 chimaera | |
? Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888 whiptail stingray | |
Selachii indet. shark | |
Hybodus sp., "Hybodus basanus" = Egertonodus basanus
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
"Hybodus basanus" = Egertonodus basanus Egerton 1845 elasmobranch | |
Polyacrodus sp. Jaekel 1889 elasmobranch |