Rochefort-Les Grattes tracksite (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Neuchâtel, Switzerland (47.0° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Twannbach Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• level 100, above the Grenzerineenbank (marking boundary w/underlying Reuchenette Fm.); lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lime mudstone and lime mudstone

• "within intertidal to supratidal shallow marine…an intertidal to supratidal carbonate mudflat."
• "thin-bedded limestones including microbially-bound biolaminates. Thin-sections reveal a mudstone texture with weakly-expressed, cryptmicrobial lamination and the absence of any skeletal grains."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by D. Marty & C. Meyer in 2004

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Marty, C. A. Meyer, M. Belvedere, J. Ayer, and K. L. Schäfer. 2013. Rochefort–Les Grattes: an Early Tithonian dinosaur tracksite from the Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Revue de Paléobiologie 32(2):373-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 155021: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Parabrontopodidae
Parabrontopodus sp.
Parabrontopodus sp. Lockley et al. 1995 sauropod
trackway S1