Also known as Fuller's Earth, Fleury-sur-Orne, Calcaire de Caen

Where: Normandy, France (49.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre de Caen Formation (Calcaires de Caen Group), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Alcide de Caumont, Eudes-Deslongchamps in 1817

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. Eudes-Deslongchamps. 1868. Note sur le Squelette et la Restauration du Teleosaurus cadomensis [Note on the skeleton and restoration of Teleosaurus cadomensis]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, série 2 2:381-473 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138308: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 11.01.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano and Grace Varnham

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