Where: Basse-Normandie, France (49.0° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• the "Grande Oolithe" of this area

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. de Caumont, J.-V.-F. Lamouroux in 1821–1827

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Gervais. 1852. Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3:1-274+ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141169: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2013

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