Châtillon (Kimm) (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Boulogne-sur-mer, Boulonnais

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.7° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "Thracis depressa beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate

• "zone with ferruginous pebbles"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dutertre-Delporte, Beaugrand, Dumesnil

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1874. Mémoire sur les dinosauriens et les crocodiliens des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-Mer [Memoir on the dinosaurs and crocodilians of the Jurassic deposits of Boulogne-sur-mer]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, série 2 10(2):1-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67107: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.11.2006, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Tropidemys morinica n. sp.2 Sauvage 1880 turtle
 Loricata -
"Machimosaurus hugii" = Machimosaurus hugii, "Machimosaurus interruptus" = Machimosaurus hugii, "Machimosaurus ferox" = Machimosaurus hugii
"Machimosaurus hugii" = Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
teeth
"Machimosaurus interruptus" = Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
"Machimosaurus ferox" = Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
tooth
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Haematosaurus lanceolatus Sauvage 1874 marine crocodile
tooth
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchus sp. von Meyer 1830 marine crocodile
atlas
Metriorhynchus littoreus n. sp. Sauvage 1874 marine crocodile
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
"? Omosaurus sp." = Dacentrurus2
"? Omosaurus sp." = Dacentrurus2 Lucas 1902 ornithischian
MHNB 234 (AN 285)
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
ungual
 Saurischia -
Iguanodon praecursor1 Sauvage 1876 sauropod
phalanx
 Pterosauria -
"Rhamphorhynchus suprajurensis" = Pterodactylus suprajurensis3
"Rhamphorhynchus suprajurensis" = Pterodactylus suprajurensis3 Sauvage 1873 pterosaur
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Cryptoclidus beaugrandi4 plesiosaur
MNHB 292 (AN 3777)