La Brière, Octeville beach: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, France
collected by E. Savalle & G. Lennier - 1898

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
cf. Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger 1881
Savalle and Lennier 1899 1 individual
"very close to Iguanodon bernissartensis"
    = Omosaurus lennieri n. sp. Nopcsa 1911
Nopcsa 1911
nomen dubium belonging to Dacentrurus
MHNH A
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ostrea bruntrutana (Thurmann 1830)
Savalle and Lennier 1899
synonym of Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Ostrea virgula Defrance 1821
Savalle and Lennier 1899
synonym of Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Haute-Normandie County:Seine-Maritime
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 0.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.3° North, 9.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:56 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: Aulacostephanus mutabilis
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argiles d'Octeville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: formation = Lower Kimmeridge Clay in part; Aulacostephanus mutabilis zone; also listed as "Argiles à Ammonites"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a compact gray limestone, very hard"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Encrustation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:E. Savalle & G. Lennier Collection dates:Apr-Sep 1898
Collection method comments: destroyed along with Muséum du Havre in 1944. Some report suggest excavation took place 1896–1897, but Lepage et al. 2018 indicate it was in 1898.
Metadata
Also known as:Cap de la Hève
Database number:47420
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-24 08:55:50 Last modified:2021-11-09 14:55:45
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-24 08:55:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13120.ETE G. Lennier. 1898. [Note on the discovery of a dinosaur at Octeville]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 4:317-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
25691ETE P. M. Galton. 1991. Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal. Geologica et Palaeontologica 25:299-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12728ETE P. M. Galton and G. Boiné. 1980. A stegosaurian dinosaur femur from the Kimmeridge Beds (Upper Jurassic) of the Cap de la Hève, Normandy. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société géologique de Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre 17(4 (4e tr.)):31-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62949 E. Hennig. 1915. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria 1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13123ETE R. Hoffstetter. 1957. Quelques observations sur les stégosaurinés [Some observations on stegosaurines]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2e série 29(6):537-547 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13122ETE R. Hoffstetter and R. Brun. 1958. Note complémentaire sur la découverte d'un dinosaurien stégosauriné dans le Callovien d'Argences (Calvados). Revue des Sociétés Savates de Haute-Normandie, Sciences 9:69-78 [M. Carrano/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]
70474 Y. Lepage, É Buffetaut, and G. Lepage. 2018. The first photographs of a dinosaur excavation in Europe: Emile Savalle and the stegosaur from Octeville (Normandy, 1898). Colligo 1(1):35-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78564 S. C. R. Maidment. 2010. Stegosauria: a historical review of the body fossil record and phylogenetic relationships. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 103(2):199-210 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29301ETE S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53021 B. F. Nopcsa. 1911. Omosaurus lennieri, un nouveau dinosaurien du Cap de la Hève [Omosaurus lennieri, a new dinosaur from Cap de la Hève]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de Normandie 30:23-42 [M. Carrano/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]
62409 E. Savalle and G. Lennier. 1899. Note sur des ossements de Dinosaurien découverts à Octeville par MM. Savalle et G. Lennier [Note on some dinosaur bones discovered at Octeville by Messrs. Savalle and G. Lennier]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de Normandie 18:59-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]