Canal de Belle-Croix (Jurassic of France)

Also known as La Rochelle, Bellecroix

Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (46.2° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• dsecribed only as "middle oolite" formation, more than 30 feet (10 m) deep into the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Geslin in 1831

• also listed as "M. Bertrand-Geslin"

Primary reference: B. Geslin. 1833. [Une vertèrbre de Megalosaurus] [A vertebra of Megalosaurus]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 3:281 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70549: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
vertebra or tooth