along Létra—Saint-Fortunat road (Triassic to of France)

Also known as Mont d'Or Lyonnais

Where: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (45.8° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Grès Inférieurs du Lyonnais Formation, Anisian to Anisian (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• late Anisian to early Ladinian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Jourdan in 1890

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Lortet. 1892. Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhône [The fossil reptiles of the Rhône basin]. Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon 5:3-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 199933: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur
no. 38749
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur