Calcaire de Valognes explained

Calcaire de Valognes
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Hettangian
Period:	Hettangian
Prilithology:	Limestone

The Calcaire de Valognes is an Early Jurassic (Hettangian) geologic formation in France. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Paleofauna

• Megalosaurus cf. cloacinus^[2]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

References

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. Buffetaut, Cuny & Le Loeuff (1991) Buffetaut E, Cuny G, Le Loeuff J. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe? Modern Geology. 1991;16:17–42.