Mont Rouge, Wimille (UJ) (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Boulonnais, Mont-Rouge, Boulogne-sur-mer

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.8° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonites portlandicus ammonoid zone, Mont-Lambert Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• "Portlandian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Duterte-Delporte, Sauvage

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1888. Sur les Reptiles trouvés dans le Portlandien supérieur de Boulogne-sur-Mer [On the reptiles found in the upper Portlandian of Boulogne-sur-Mer]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 16:623-632 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53967: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Pleurosternon bullockii2 Owen 1842 turtle
 Testudinata -
Tropidemys sp. Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
 Testudinata - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelys sp. Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus trigonus4 Owen 1840 ichthyosaur
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis undidens de la Moussaye 1884 crocodilian
 Loricata -
"Machimosaurus interruptus" = Machimosaurus hugii
"Machimosaurus interruptus" = Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
MHNB 235 (AN 1762)
 Theropoda -
"Megalosaurus oweni" = Valdoraptor oweni4, "Caudocoelus sauvagei n. gen. n. sp." = Teinurosaurus sauvagei3, Megalosaurus insignis
"Megalosaurus oweni" = Valdoraptor oweni4 Lydekker 1889 ornithomimosaur
"Caudocoelus sauvagei n. gen. n. sp." = Teinurosaurus sauvagei3 Huene 1932 tetanuran theropod
MHNB 240 (AN 6287)
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
MHNB 118
 Saurischia -
"Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus, "Caulodon precursor" = Iguanodon praecursor
"Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus Lydekker 1888 sauropod
MHNB 118 (AN 3278), MHNB 118 (AN 3316)
"Caulodon precursor" = Iguanodon praecursor Sauvage 1876 sauropod
MNHB 113 (1480), 114, 115 (324)