Vaches Noires, near Honfleur: Late/Upper Callovian - Early/Lower Oxfordian, France
collected by J. Bacheley 1770

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Allosauroidea indet. Currie and Zhao 1994
Buffetaut et al. 2010
Incomplete fourth metatarsal
Streptospondylus altdorfensis n. gen., n. sp. Meyer 1832
Meyer 1832 1 individual
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchus geoffroyii n. sp. Meyer 1832
Young et al. 2010
Reptilia - Teleosauridae
Crocodylia informal indet. 1 (Owen 1842)
Cuvier 1808
Cuvier's short-snouted form
    = Metriorhynchus geoffroyii n. sp. Meyer 1832
Allain 2001
Meyer 1832
    = Steneosaurus rostrominor n. sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825
Allain 2001
Crocodylia informal indet. 2 (Owen 1842)
Cuvier 1808
Cuvier's long-snouted form
    = Steneosaurus rostromajor n. sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825
Allain 2001
nomen dubium belonging to Steneosaurus
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Basse-Normandie
Coordinates: 49.4° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:23 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian - Early/Lower Oxfordian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: exact level unknown, listed as "Marnes à Deltoideum delta" in Rioult 1978.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic,gray lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "banks of hardened marl, grayish and pyritic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Encrustation:occasional
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:J. Bacheley Collection dates:1770
Collection method comments: collected by Abbé Bacheley (sometimes spelled Bachelet), a naturalist from Rouen
Metadata
Database number:49339
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-13 10:34:17 Last modified:2023-03-16 14:46:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-13 10:34:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
84124. 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]

Secondary references:

13172ETE R. Allain. 2001. Redescription de Streptospondylus altdorfensis, le dinosaure théropode de Cuvier, du Jurassique de Normandie [Redescription of Streptospondylus altdorfensis, Cuvier's theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of Normandy]. Geodiversitas 23(3):349-367 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45419 A. Bigot. 1897. Ossements de Dinosauriens jurassiques de Normandie [Jurassic dinosaur bones from Normandy]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 5e série 1:xciii-xciv [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
84125 A. Brignon. 2016. L’abbé Bacheley et la découverte des premiers dinosaures et crocodiliens marins dans le Jurassique des Vaches Noires (Callovien/Oxfordien, Normandie) [Abbott Bacheley and the discovery of the first dinosaurs and marine crocodilians from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires (Callovian/Oxfordian, Normandy, France)]. Comptes Rendus Palevol 15(5):595-605 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
77169 E. Buffetaut. 1983. La paléontologie des vertébrés mésozoïques en Normandie du 18e siècle à nos jours: un essai historique [The paleontology of Mesozoic vertebrates in Normandy from the 18th century to the present day: a historical essay ]. Actes du Muséum de Rouen 1983(2):39-59 [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]
76867 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1993. The discovery of French dinosaurs. Modern Geology 18:161-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50387 E. Buffetaut, F. Hebert, and T. Rebours. 2010. Un metatarsien de dinosaure theropode dans le Jurassique des Falaises des Vaches Noires (Calvados, Normandie, France). Bulletin Sciences et Geologie Normandes 1:49-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
60341 P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 368-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30114ETE G. Cuvier. 1808. Sur les ossemens fossiles de crocodiles, et particulièrement sur ceux des environs du Havre et de Honfleur, avec des remarques sur les squelettes des sauriens de la Thuringe [On the fossil bones of crocodiles, and particularly on those from the environs of Havre and Honfleur, with some remarks on the skeletons of saurians from Thuringia]. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 12:73-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46182 A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14128ETE F. v. Huene. 1926. The carnivorous Saurischia in the Jura and Cretaceous formations, principally in Europe. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:35-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50454 H.-V. Karl, E. Groning, C. Brauckmann and N. Knotschke. 2006. Revision of the genus Enaliosuchus Koken, 1883 (Archosauromorpha: Metriorhynchidae) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Germany. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 42:49-59 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
30159ETE H. v. Meyer. 1832. Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe; Verlag von Siegmund Schmerber, Franfurt am Main 1-560 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17257ETE B. F. Nopcsa. 1906. Zur kenntnis des Genus Streptospondylus [On the knowledge of the genus Streptospondylus]. Beiträge zur Paläontologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 19:59-83 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45806 M. Rioult. 1978. Inventaire des dinosauriens Mesozoïques de Normandie [Inventory of Mesozoic dinosaurs from Normandy]. In M. Rioult (ed.), Ecosystèmes Continentaux Mesozoïques de Normandie 26-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58795 W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1997. History of dinosaur discoveries. I. Early discoveries. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 340-347 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42555 M. T. Young, S. L. Brusatte, M. Ruta and M. B. Andrade. 2010. The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(4):801-859 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Young]