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
Pycnodus rugulosus Agassiz 1839
1 specimen
recombined as Mesodon rugulosus
BMNH 32550 (Tesson Coll.)
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus sp. Agassiz 1832
1 specimen
BMNH 32451 (Tesson Coll.)
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
1 specimen
BMNH 32452 (Tesson Coll.)
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Plesiosauridae
Thaumatosaurus oolithicus Meyer 1841
Lydekker 1889 4 specimens
Foru teeth (BMNH 32608, Tesson Collection)
Reptilia
Teleidosaurus joberti n. sp. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867
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
Phizackerley 1951
recombined as Seldsienean megistorhynchus
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus emarginatus Egerton 1843
Woodward 1891 3 specimens
BMNH 32545 (Tesson coll.), 41307 (purchased 1869), 44830 (presented by Benjamin Bright, Esq., 1873)
unclassified
Pristacanthus securis Agassiz 1837
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]
14142ETE 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 ]