Brosses-Thillot Quarry, C2 tracksite: Middle Triassic, France
collected by Lobreau, G. Gand, F. Pellier, L. Courel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Rhynchosauroides maximus n. sp.
Gand 1974
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Gand 1974 | 7 individuals | ||||||||
BTg 35-40, 8-p | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhynchosauroidae
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Phalangichnus sp.
Schmidt 1959
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Gand 1974 | 1 individual | ||||||||
misspelled "Phalangicnus"; BTg 8 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Anchisauripus bibractensis
Demathieu 1971
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Gand 1973 | 1 individual | ||||||||
BTg 23 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi
Demathieu and Gand 1972
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Gand 1973 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
BTg 21, slab P; BTa, BTb, BTc, BTg I, BTg II | ||||||||||
= Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis
Gand et al. 1976
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Gand et al. 1976 | |||||||||
paratype, BT 4 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Synaptichnium sp.
Nopcsa 1923
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Gand 1974 | 1 individual | ||||||||
BTW 36 | ||||||||||
Sphingopus ferox
Demathieu 1966
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Gand 1974 | |||||||||
recombined as Chirotherium ferox | ||||||||||
Chirotherium sp.
Kaup 1835
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Gand et al. 1973 | 4 individuals | ||||||||
BTg V, XV, 16 | ||||||||||
= Chirotherium barthi
Kaup 1835
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Gand and Demathieu 2005 | |||||||||
original and current combination Chirotherium barthii | ||||||||||
Dahutherium sp.
Montenat 1968
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Gand 1974 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
nomen nudum belonging to Chirotheriidae | ||||||||||
BTg, slab A | ||||||||||
Isochirotherium sp.
Haubold 1971
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Gand et al. 1973 | 5 individuals | ||||||||
BTg VIII A, B; XIX, BTW 30, 33 | ||||||||||
= Isochirotherium circademathieui
Gand 1979
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Gand et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Brachychirotherium sp.
Beurlen 1950
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Gand et al. 1973 | 4 individuals | ||||||||
BTg 32, 8B, BTW 31, 33 | ||||||||||
Brachychirotherium lorteti
(Haubold 1970)
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Gand 1974 | 1 individual | ||||||||
BTW 32 | ||||||||||
Brachychirotherium pachydactylum
Demathieu and Gand 1973
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Gand 1974 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Rotodactylidae
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Rotodactylus sp.
Peabody 1948
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Gand 1974 | 1 individual | ||||||||
BTg 31 | ||||||||||
Rotodactylus lucasi
Demathieu and Gand 1973
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Gand 1974 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | County: | Saône-et-Loire |
Coordinates: | 46.6° North, 4.5° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 11.4° North, 16.1° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 366 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Triassic | *Epoch: | Late Triassic |
*International age/stage: | Carnian - Rhaetian | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Triassic | ||
Age range of interval: | 247.20000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Grès d'Antully | ||
Local section: | Brosses-Thillot | Local bed: | C2 |
Local order: | bottom to top | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red,yellow lithified argillaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "very silificied sandstone, massive, several clayey joints, reddish-yellow bed" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Associated major elements: | many |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | Lobreau, G. Gand, F. Pellier, L. Courel |
Metadata
Also known as: | Brosses-Thillots, Laupretre, Mont-Saint-Vincent, Montceau-les-Mines, Charolais, Saint Vincent, Lauprètre | ||
Database number: | 28092 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-01-23 10:51:55 | Last modified: | 2023-01-09 09:47:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-01-23 10:51:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
83595. | L. Courel and G.-G.-P. Demathieu. 1963. Les empreintes de pas fossiles dans le Trias de la bordure est et nord-est du Massif Central [The fossil footprints in the Triassic of the east and northeast border of the Massif Central]. Bulletin Scientifique de Bourgogne 21:73-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
68923 | G. R. Demathieu. 1970. Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central]. Cahiers de Paléontologie 1-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
47224 | G. R. Demathieu. 1989. Appearance of the first dinosaur tracks in the French Middle Triassic and their probable significance. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 201-207 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17970 | ETE | G. Gand. 1973. Les empreintes dinosauroïdes des grès triasiques de la carrière des Brosses-Thillot (Mont Saint-Vincent (Saône-et-Loire)) [The dinosauroid footprints from the Triassic sandstones of the Brosses-Thillot quarry (Mont Saint-Vincent (Saône-et-Loire))]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 65:1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17965 | ETE | G. Gand. 1974. Une nouvelle espèce ichnologique des Grès à Empreintes du Trias Moyen [A new ichnological species from the Middle Triassic Grès à Empreintes]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 70:10-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
17967 | ETE | G. Gand. 1974. Les traces de vertébrés triasiques de l’Autunois et du Nord du Charollais [Triassic vertebrate traces from the Autunois and the northern Charollais]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 69:7-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
71501 | G. Gand. 1975. Sur les Traces des Premièrs Dinosaures Morvandiaux [On the Traces of the First Morvandian Dinosaurs] 1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70494 | G. Gand, R. Bourillot, B. Brigaud, J. S. Steyer, and J.-B. Peyrouse. 2012. Les Reptiles et Synapsides fossiles de Bourgogne [The fossil reptiles and synapsids of Bourgogne]. In D. Sirugue & N. Varanguin (ed.), Atlas des Reptiles de Bourgogne [Atlas of the Reptiles of Bourgogne] 12:33-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
19626 | ETE | G. Gand and G. Demathieu. 2005. Les pistes dinosauroïds du Trias moyen français: interprétation et réévaluation de la nomenclature [The French Middle Triassic dinosauroid trackways: interpretation and nomenclatural reevaluation]. Geobios 38:725-749 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
67995 | G. Gand, G. Demathieu, and C. Montenat. 2007. Les traces de pas d'amphibiens, de dinosaures et autres reptiles du Mesozoïque français: Inventaire et interpretations [Footprints of amphibians, dinosaurs, and other reptiles from the French Mesozoic: inventory and interpretations]. Palaeovertebrata 2007(1–4):1-149 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
67980 | G. Gand, J.-F. Pellier, and F. Pellier. 1973. Notes préliminaires sur les empreintes chirothéroïdes des grès triasiques de la carrière des Brosses-Thillot (Mont Saint-Vincent, Saône-et-Loire) [Preliminary notes on the chirotheroid footprints from the Triassic sandstones of the Brosses-Thillot quarry (Mont Saint-Vincent, Saône-et-Loire)]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 68:7-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
7692 | 5% 10800 | G. Gand, F. Pellier, and J.-F. Pellier. 1976. Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis: trace triasique nouvelle de la bordure N.-E. du Massif Central [Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis: a new Triassic trackway from the northeastern border of the Massif Central]. Bulletin trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 79:19-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |