Ecouché, Orne (Jurassic to of France)

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (48.7° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaire d'Ecouché Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian to Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Hua, 2020: Nev- ertheless, based on the matrix associated with the specimen, the stratigraphic level is well known. The specimen (MPV 2010.3.45), as indicated, was discovered in Ecouché (Orne, Normandy) in the Fuller’s Earth Level. The Fuller’s Earth level corresponds to the Calcaire d’Ecouché or Calcaire de Caen in Normandy, which is mid- dle Bathonian in age (Menillet and Gérard, 1997; Dugué et al., 1998). According to these previous authors, two ammonite zones are possible for this area, the Zigzagiceras zigzag ammonite Zone and the Asphinctites tenuiplicatus ammonite Zone. Fortunately, sed- iments associated with the remains are typical of the upper zone of the “Calcaire d’Ecouché” in the A. tenuiplicatus ammonite Zone, upper part of the lower Bathonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Fortin, Brun, & Friardel

• from the Fortin collection, Muséum de Rouen

•Hua, 2020: This specimen was discovered during the 1980s by a French fossil collector, the late André Follet, and formed part of his private collection. It was purchased following his death in 2010 by the Paléospace l’Odyssée Museum of Villers-sur-Mer as part of the official French national collections (MPV 2010.3.45).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141168: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2013, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
several isolated teeth
 Loricata -
"Teleosaurus calvadosii" = Teleidosaurus calvadosii1
"Teleosaurus calvadosii" = Teleidosaurus calvadosii1 Eudes-Deslongchamps 1866 marine crocodile
Neotype (MPV 2010.3.45: incomplete cranium, mandible, two vertebrae, and isolated teeth.)