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The Falaises des Vaches Noires ("Black Cow Cliffs") are a geological site located along the coast of Normandy, France, in the communes of Houlgate, Gonneville-sur-Mer, Auberville, and Villers-sur-Mer.^[1] The site is notable for the many fossils that have been discovered there in marine sediments dating to the Middle to Late Jurassic period. ^[2]^[3]

Paleontology edit

The lower layers of the cliffs have yielded many fossils of reptiles, including marine crocodylomorphs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dinosaurs such as the theropod Streptospondylus.^[3]^[4] Notably, the first dinosaur fossils ever discovered in France, studied by Georges Cuvier, were discovered at the Vaches Noires site.^[5] In addition to vertebrates, ammonites, urchins, and poriferans have also been discovered.^[3]

References edit

^ "Les falaises des Vaches Noires". Villers-sur-mer (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-03.
^ Brignon, Arnaud. (2017). Les « ossements pétrifiés » du Jurassique des Vaches Noires dans les cabinets d’histoire naturelle du XVIIIe et du début du XIXe siècles - The “petrified bones” from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires (Calvados, France) in the natural history cabinets of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. L'Écho des Falaises, 21: 7-35. 21. 7-35.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Paléospace - Les Falaises des Vaches Noires". www.paleospace-villers.fr. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
^ "Redescription de Streptospondylus altdorfensis, le dinosaure théropode de Cuvier, du Jurassique de Normandie". Geodiversitas. 23 (3): 349–367. 2001.
^ Brignon, Arnaud (2016-04-01). "L'abbé Bacheley et la découverte des premiers dinosaures et crocodiliens marins dans le Jurassique des Vaches Noires (Callovien/Oxfordien, Normandie)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 15 (5): 595–605. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2015.10.004. ISSN 1631-0683.

External links edit

[1] "Les falaises des Vaches Noires". Villers-sur-mer (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-03.

[2] Brignon, Arnaud. (2017). Les « ossements pétrifiés » du Jurassique des Vaches Noires dans les cabinets d’histoire naturelle du XVIIIe et du début du XIXe siècles - The “petrified bones” from the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires (Calvados, France) in the natural history cabinets of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. L'Écho des Falaises, 21: 7-35. 21. 7-35.

[:0-3] "Paléospace - Les Falaises des Vaches Noires". www.paleospace-villers.fr. Retrieved 2021-07-03.

[4] "Redescription de Streptospondylus altdorfensis, le dinosaure théropode de Cuvier, du Jurassique de Normandie". Geodiversitas. 23 (3): 349–367. 2001.

[5] Brignon, Arnaud (2016-04-01). "L'abbé Bacheley et la découverte des premiers dinosaures et crocodiliens marins dans le Jurassique des Vaches Noires (Callovien/Oxfordien, Normandie)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 15 (5): 595–605. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2015.10.004. ISSN 1631-0683.

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