Great Oolite, Caen, Normandy (BMNH Tesson collection): Bathonian, France
collected by Tesson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Pycnodus rugulosus
Agassiz 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Mesodon rugulosus | ||||||||||
BMNH 32550 (Tesson Coll.) | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pholidophoriformes
- Pholidophoridae
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Pholidophorus sp.
Agassiz 1832
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BMNH 32451 (Tesson Coll.) | ||||||||||
Pholidophorus germanicus
Quenstedt 1858
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BMNH 32452 (Tesson Coll.) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Plesiosauridae
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Thaumatosaurus oolithicus
Meyer 1841
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Lydekker 1889 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Foru teeth (BMNH 32608, Tesson Collection) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Teleidosaurus joberti n. sp.
Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867
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Lydekker 1888 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH 32612 (Tesson Coll.), cast of portion of right ramus, original is part of type specimen | ||||||||||
Steneosaurus megistorhynchus n. sp.
Saint-Hilaire 1866
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Phizackerley 1951 | |||||||||
recombined as Seldsienean megistorhynchus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Callorhynchidae
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Ischyodus emarginatus
Egerton 1843
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Woodward 1891 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 32545 (Tesson coll.), 41307 (purchased 1869), 44830 (presented by Benjamin Bright, Esq., 1873) | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Pristacanthus securis
Agassiz 1837
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Woodward 1891 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.6253, 32726-27 (Tesson coll.), 41306, P.6254 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France |
Coordinates: | 49.2° North, 0.4° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 38.8° North, 10.2° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Bathonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Great Oolite |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collectors: | Tesson |
Collection method comments: Tesson Collection, purchased 1857 |
Metadata
Database number: | 131997 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham, P. Mannion, R. Benson, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, R. Benson, B. Allen, J. Tennant |
Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-08-04 08:47:10 | Last modified: | 2014-04-07 12:41:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-04 08:47:10 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
38893. | A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
50667 | A. Brignon. 2014. Un travail inedit de Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps sur les crocodyliformes marins du Jurassique de Normandie. Geodiversitas 36(1):5-33 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant] | |
14142 | ETE | R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
33960 | R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson] | |
50075 | P. H. Phizackerley. 1951. A revision of the Teleosauridae in the Oxford University Museum and the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(4):1170-1192 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
38758 | A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ] |