Calcaire de Caen

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Calcaire de Caen or Calcaires de Caen Formation; French for Caen Limestone, is a geological formation in France. It dates back to the mid-Bathonian of the Jurassic period.[1] It was frequently quarried for building work and is referred to as Caen Stone.

Vertebrate fauna

Indeterminate sauropod remains located in the Département Du Calvados, France.[1]

Dinosaurs
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes
Dubreuillosaurus[1][2] D. valesdunensis[1] Département Du Calvados[1] Pierre de Caen Member "Nearly complete skull and partial skeleton."[3]
Megalosaurus[1] Indeterminate[1] Département Du Calvados, France.[1] Later found to be indeterminate theropod remains.[1] Collected in 1826.
Poekilopleuron[1] P. bucklandii[1] Département Du Calvados, France.[1] Banc Royal Member "Partial postcranial skeleton."[3]
Seldsienean[4] S. megistorhynchus Département Du Calvados, France.[1]
Teleosaurus[1] T. cadomensis[1]

T. geoffroyi (?)[1]

Département Du Calvados, France.[1] "Quarter of a skull and other assorted fragments."[1] Remains of T. geoffroyi destroyed in 1944. T. geoffroyi may have been the same as T. cadomensis.[1]
Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.

See also

References

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  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Middle Jurassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 538–541. Template:ISBN.
  2. Allain, R., 2005, "The postcranial anatomy of the megalosaur Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis (Dinosauria Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy, France", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4): 850–858
  3. a b "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 72.
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