Vaches Noires, near Honfleur (Jurassic to of France)

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.4° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

• exact level unknown, listed as "Marnes à Deltoideum delta" in Rioult 1978.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pyritic, gray marl

• "banks of hardened marl, grayish and pyritic"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Bacheley in 1770; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• collected by Abbé Bacheley (sometimes spelled Bachelet), a naturalist from Rouen

Primary reference: L. Lepecq de la Cloture. 1778. Collection d’Observations sur les Maladies et Constitutions Épidémiques, Première Partie [Collection of Observations on Diseases and Epidemic Constitutions, First Part] xvi-595 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49339: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus rostromajor n. sp.1 Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
Cuvier's long-snouted form
Steneosaurus rostrominor n. sp.1 Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
Cuvier's short-snouted form
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchus geoffroyii n. sp.4 Meyer 1832 marine crocodile
 Megalosauria -
Streptospondylus altdorfensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Meyer 1832 tetanuran theropod
 Theropoda -
Allosauroidea indet.2 Currie and Zhao 1994 allosauroid
Incomplete fourth metatarsal