Vaches Noires, near Dives: Late/Upper Callovian, France
collected by Dutacq 1920

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Megalosauridae
Streptospondylus cuvieri Owen 1842
1 specimen
MNHN 1920-7
    = Eustreptospondylus divesensis n. sp. Walker 1964
Walker 1964
recombined as Piveteausaurus divesensis
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Basse-Normandie County:Calvados
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:26 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian Ammonoid zone: Peltoceras athleta
Age range of interval:164.70000 - 161.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes de Dives
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: also listed as "Couches du Mauvais-Pas"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:Dutacq Collection dates:1920
Collection method comments: discovered by Mr. Dutacq of Dives, reported to Boule by commandant Cazenave
Metadata
Database number:51708
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-13 06:44:59 Last modified:2016-09-12 15:05:06
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-13 06:44:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

23791.ETE J. Piveteau. 1923. L'arrière-crâne d'un dinosaurien carnivore de l'Oxfordien de Dives [The braincase of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Oxfordian of Dives]. Annales de Paléontologie 12:115-123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
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]
45099 A. F. d. Lapparent. 1967. Les dinosaures de France [The dinosaurs of France]. Sciences 51:4-19 [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]
13770ETE P. Taquet and S. P. Welles. 1977. Redescription du crâne de dinosaure théropode de Dives (Normandie) [Redescription of a theropod dinosaur skull from Dives (Normandy)]. Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés) 63(2):191-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13771ETE A. D. Walker. 1964. Triassic reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 248:53-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]