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Villers-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy, northwestern France, with a population of 2,644 as of 2017.
The commune is located on the French coast of the English Channel, on the Côte Fleurie, between Deauville and Houlgate, approximately 200 km from Paris.
It is the northernmost French commune through which falls the Prime meridian of the world. The latter is represented on the seafront promenade with a blue mark on the ground and on the parapet. This mark is positioned 32 metres west of the actual meridian in use today, the IERS Reference Meridian.
Numerous fossils of vertebrates were found in the Jurassic (Upper Callovian) Vaches-Noires cliffs in Villers-sur-Mer. Remains include marine reptiles, in particular teleosaurids (Steneosaurus heberti) and metriorhynchids, coelacanths, a huge suspension-feeding fish Leedsichthys and dinosaurs. A 2.5 m-long metriorhynchid skeleton, assigned to Metriorhynchus cf. superciliosus, is unique due to the preserved undigested food in its stomach: the remains of invertebrates and gill apparatus of Leedsichthys. This content indicates that large fishes were not the main diet of these thalattosuchians and this individual likely devoured already dead Leedsichthys. It is also widely known by ammonite specialists.
Villers-sur-Mere is known for the large topiary dinosaurs facing the sea from the garden of the office of tourism. In certain years, a baby dinosaur is added to the garden. There is a small museum in the enclosure of the office of tourism, which has an outline of the resources and discoveries, along with the Paléospace l'Odyssée, which covers topics as varied as the Greenwich Meridian, the nature and history of the marshland surrounding the town, and fossils found in the nearby Vaches Noires cliffs.
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It seems that Villers-sur-Mer (then known as Villers) was more akin to a group of hamlets during the early 19th century. According to the Cassini map (drawn in the 18th century), Villers at that time was made up of a church, two farms (La Motte and Fontaine), and a castle.
The town had a population of 2,644 in 2017, posting a growth of just under 50 residents between then and 2007.
Villers-sur-Mer
Villers-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy, northwestern France, with a population of 2,644 as of 2017.
The commune is located on the French coast of the English Channel, on the Côte Fleurie, between Deauville and Houlgate, approximately 200 km from Paris.
It is the northernmost French commune through which falls the Prime meridian of the world. The latter is represented on the seafront promenade with a blue mark on the ground and on the parapet. This mark is positioned 32 metres west of the actual meridian in use today, the IERS Reference Meridian.
Numerous fossils of vertebrates were found in the Jurassic (Upper Callovian) Vaches-Noires cliffs in Villers-sur-Mer. Remains include marine reptiles, in particular teleosaurids (Steneosaurus heberti) and metriorhynchids, coelacanths, a huge suspension-feeding fish Leedsichthys and dinosaurs. A 2.5 m-long metriorhynchid skeleton, assigned to Metriorhynchus cf. superciliosus, is unique due to the preserved undigested food in its stomach: the remains of invertebrates and gill apparatus of Leedsichthys. This content indicates that large fishes were not the main diet of these thalattosuchians and this individual likely devoured already dead Leedsichthys. It is also widely known by ammonite specialists.
Villers-sur-Mere is known for the large topiary dinosaurs facing the sea from the garden of the office of tourism. In certain years, a baby dinosaur is added to the garden. There is a small museum in the enclosure of the office of tourism, which has an outline of the resources and discoveries, along with the Paléospace l'Odyssée, which covers topics as varied as the Greenwich Meridian, the nature and history of the marshland surrounding the town, and fossils found in the nearby Vaches Noires cliffs.
.
It seems that Villers-sur-Mer (then known as Villers) was more akin to a group of hamlets during the early 19th century. According to the Cassini map (drawn in the 18th century), Villers at that time was made up of a church, two farms (La Motte and Fontaine), and a castle.
The town had a population of 2,644 in 2017, posting a growth of just under 50 residents between then and 2007.
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