east of Houlgate, Vaches Noires: Late/Upper Callovian - Oxfordian, France
collected 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Megalosauridae
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= ? Piveteausaurus sp.
Taquet and Welles 1977
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Carrano et al. 2012 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Basse-Normandie | County: | Calvados |
| Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 0.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.8° North, 9.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 43 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Callovian - Oxfordian |
| Age range of interval: | 165.30000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Marnes de Dives | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: specimen found at base of cliffs, so original bed uncertain - either Marnes de Dives or overlying Oxfordian beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Encrustation: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1989 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 35909 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-09 11:57:33 | Last modified: | 2010-11-08 13:09:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-09 11:57:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9650. | E. Buffetaut and J. Enos. 1992. Un nouveau fragment crânien de dinosaure théropode du Jurassique des Vaches Noires (Normandie, France): remarques sur la diversité des théropodes jurassiques européens [A new theropod dinosaur skull fragment from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires (Normandy, France): remarks on the diversity of the Jurassic theropods of Europe]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris, Série II 314:217-222 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 41617 | M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |