page_title: Marnes de Dives
section_title: Vertebrate fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Marnes de Dives / Vertebrate fauna
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch of Piveteausaurus divesensis, a theropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Europe (France). Note that this dinosaur is only known from a complete braincase (neurocranium), therefore the reconstruction in that illustration is completely hypothetical based upon a generalised allosauroid bodyplan. Deutsch: Skizze von Piveteausaurus divesensis, ein theropoder Dinosaurier aus dem Mittleren Jura Europas (Frankreich). Dieser Dinosaurier ist nur von einem vollständigen Hirnschädel (Neurocranium) bekannt, daher ist die Darstellung in dieser Abbildung vollständig hypothetisch und gründet sich auf einen generalisierten allosauriden Körperbau.
context_page_description: The Marnes de Dives is a geological formation in Normandy, France. It dates back to the upper part of the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic. And is partially equivalent to the Oxford Clay in England. It predominantly consists of ooidal marl, rich in pyrite and lignite, interbedded with thin limestone horizons. It is best exposed at the base of the Falaises des Vaches Noires as well as the foreshore at low tide. It is known for its fossils, notablity those of ammonites, marine crocodiles and fragmentary remains of dinosaurs, mostly theropods.
caption: Piveteausaurus divesensis
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