Auvringhen, Wimille (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Boulonnais, 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous sandstone

• "sables ferrugineux"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by 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 65030: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosaurus aff. ellipsospondylus Phillips 1871 plesiosaur
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
"Cimoliosaurus portlandicus" = Colymbosaurus trochanterius
"Cimoliosaurus portlandicus" = Colymbosaurus trochanterius Owen 1840 plesiosaur
MNHB 285
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus trigonus2 Owen 1840 ichthyosaur
 Saurischia -
"Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus3
"Pelorosaurus humerocristatus" = Duriatitan humerocristatus3 Lydekker 1888 sauropod
MHNB 116 (AN 2903), MHNB 117, MHNB 241 (AN 2905)
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
MNHB 237 (AN 2905), MNHB 238 (AN 2903)
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod