Vaches Noires, near Villers (École des Mines) (Jurassic of France)

Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.3° N, 0.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Marnes de Dives Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• "Couches du Mauvais-Pas"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: in the collection of the École des Mines, now in the MNHN presumably

Primary reference: H. Douvillé. 1885. Divers débris de Sauriens de grande taille [Diverse remains of saurians of large size]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 13:441 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp.1 Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
fibula
Megalosaurus sp.2 Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
jaw fragment