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
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
See also
References
- ^ 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. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 72.
- ^ Johnson, Michela M.; Young, Mark T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2020). "The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution". PeerJ. 8: e9808. doi:10.7717/peerj.9808. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7548081. PMID 33083104.