La Caine-Curcy (Tesson collection: BMNH) (=Curcy, Calvados) (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Argiles à Poissons

Where: France (49.0° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collected by Tesson; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S. Wenz. 1967. Compléments a l'étude des poissons actinoptérygiens du Jurassique français. Cahiers de Paléontologie 1967:1-276 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122732: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012, edited by Priscilla Vazquez, Roger Benson, Jonathan Tennant and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Furo normandica n. sp. Wenz 1965 ray-finned fish
coll Tesson 32450
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.1 de Blainville 1835 ichthyosaur
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
"Ichthyosaurus longifrons n. sp." = Ichthyosaurus acutirostris2
"Ichthyosaurus longifrons n. sp." = Ichthyosaurus acutirostris2 Owen 1840 ichthyosaur
Holotype: NHM 33157
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus oplites1 Eudes-Deslongchamps 1863 marine crocodile
 Loricata -
Pelagosaurus typus3 Bronn 1841 marine crocodile
BMNH 32598, 32601, 32600 (first reported by Deslongchamps 1863: plate 1, figs 7-9; plate 7; and 8, fig. 9)
Actinopteri
 Holostei - Dapediidae
"Dapedius pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus, "Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus4, "Dapedius magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei, "Tetragonolepis magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei4
"Dapedius pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus Agassiz 1832
"Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus4 Agassiz 1832
BMNH 328448 (Tesson Coll.)
"Dapedius magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei Agassiz 1833
"Tetragonolepis magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei4 Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.7431 (Tesson Coll.)
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotes elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis, "Lepidotus elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis4
"Lepidotes elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis de Blainville 1818 gar
"Lepidotus elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis4 de Blainville 1818 gar
BMNH 32421, 32433, Tesson Coll.
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
"Pachycormus macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus, "Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus4, "Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus4
"Pachycormus macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus4 de Blainville 1818
BMNH 32433, 32432, 32436 (Tesson Coll.)
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus4 de Blainville 1818
BMNH 32424-25, 32427, 32430-31, 32426, 32428-29, 32443, 32435, 32432, 32434, 32437-39, 32439a
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
"Leptolepis coryphaenoides" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides, "Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides4
"Leptolepis coryphaenoides" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides4 Bronn 1830
BMNH 32453-63, 32465-71, 32583, 32583a-b (Tesson Coll.), P.947-8 (Egerton Coll.)
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858