La Poterie, Wimille: Tithonian, France
collected by Dutertre-Delporte, Prévost 1839

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus aff. thyreospondylus Owen 1840
Sauvage 1888
nomen dubium belonging to Ichthyosaurus
Reptilia
Cetiosaurus sp. Owen 1841
1 specimen
MHNB 231 (AN 1423); humerus or femur? (1 measurement)
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Seeley 1880
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Sauvage 1888
radius
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosaurus phillipsi Sauvage 1871
Sauvage 1888
nomen dubium belonging to Plesiosauria
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Nord-Pas-de-Calais County:Pas-de-Calais
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 1.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° North, 11.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:61 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Tithonian
Age range of interval:152.10000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "upper Portlandian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sables ferrugineux"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Dutertre-Delporte, Prévost Collection dates:1839
Metadata
Also known as:Boulonnais, Boulogne-sur-mer
Database number:48879
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-01 13:19:06 Last modified:2021-06-16 14:52:27
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-01 13:19:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19135.ETE H.-E. Sauvage. 1874. Mémoire sur les dinosauriens et les crocodiliens des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-Mer [Memoir on the dinosaurs and crocodilians of the Jurassic deposits of Boulogne-sur-mer]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, série 2 10(2):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

77171 A. Brignon. 2018. Nouvelles données historiques sur les premiers dinosaures trouvés en France [New historical data on the first dinosaurs found in France]. BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin 189(1):4:1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45554 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13043ETE E. Buffetaut and M. Martin. 1994. Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Boulonnais (northern France): a review. Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium, Montbéliard. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume spéciale 7:17-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
48563 H. Parent. 1893. Le Wealdien du Bas-Boulonnais [The Wealden of the Bas-Boulonnais]. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 21:50-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42894 H.-E. Sauvage. 1888. Sur les Reptiles trouvés dans le Portlandien supérieur de Boulogne-sur-Mer [On the reptiles found in the upper Portlandian of Boulogne-sur-Mer]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 16:623-632 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46682 H.-E. Sauvage. 1895. Les dinosauriens du terrain jurassique supérieur du Boulonnais [The dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic terrain of the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 22:465-470 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17357ETE H. G. Seeley. 1880. Note sur l'extrémité distale d'un fémur de Dinosaurien provenant du Portlandien supérieur de la Poterie, près de Boulogne, mentionné par M. C. Prévost à la réunion de la Société géologique de France en 1839 [Note on the distal end of a dinosaurian femur found in the upper Portlandian of Poterie, near Boulogne, mentioned by M. C. Prévost at the meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1839]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 3(8):520-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18724ETE A. Vadet and J. M. Rose. 1986. Catalogue commente des types et figures de dinosauriens, ichthyosauriens, sauropterygiens, pterosauriens et cheloninens du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Boulogne-sur-Mer [Annotated catalogue of the type and figured specimens of dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians, pterosaurs, and turtles from the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle of Boulogne-sur-Mer]. In E. Buffetaut, J. M. Rose, & A. Vadet (eds.), Vértébrés Fossiles du Boulonnais. Mémoires de la Société Académique du Boulonnais 1(2):85-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]