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 | |
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur |