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Villers, Vaches Noires, pterosaur: Late/Upper Callovian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Rhamphorhynchoidea indet. Plieninger 1901
Undescribed material
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
? Rhamphorhynchidae indet. Seeley 1870
1 specimen
Isolated tooth
Reptilia - Archosauria
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Teeth
see common names
Geography
Country:France State/province:Basse-Normandie County:Calvados
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 0.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian
Age range of interval:164.7 - 161.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes de Dives
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:92054
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-28 03:45:21 Last modified:2009-10-28 05:45:41
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-28 03:45:21
Reference information
Primary reference:
30134 F. Knoll and A. Bouveur. 2001. A large pterodactyloid in northern France and a review of the French pterosaur record. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 172:447-454 [R. Butler/R. Butler]