La Pissoire Quarries, EF3 tracksite: Anisian - Ladinian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911
Reptilia - Rotodactylidae
Rotodactylus lucasi Demathieu and Gand 1973
Gand 1976
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium pachydactylum Demathieu and Gand 1973
Gand 1976
Reptilia
Coelurosaurichnus palissyi n. sp. Gand 1976
Gand 1976 1 individual
original and current combination Coelurosaurichnus palyssi
Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi Demathieu and Gand 1972
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Bourgogne-Franche-Comté County:Saône-et-Loire
Coordinates: 46.8° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.6° North, 16.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:453 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Anisian - Ladinian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès d'Antully
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous,sandy claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a natural mixture of an ancient clayey-sandy soil with reptile traces, which were not preserved in out study area." (translated by M. Carrano).
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: shallow marine environment with ripple-marks, lagoonal. Regression or evaporation leaves salt-water pools separated by small wrinkled "domes". Animals supposedly left traces immediately afterward, because the "wrinkled zone" shows neither tracks nor evaporites.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Saint-Sernin-du-Bois, EF 3
Database number:68223
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-01-09 11:27:20 Last modified:2020-01-14 10:03:04
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-09 11:27:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]
63317 G. Gand. 1976. Présentation de deux nouveaux assemblages à traces de Reptiles des grès triasiques du Plateau d’Antully (Autunois, France) [Presentation of two new assemblages with reptile traces from the Triassic sandstones of the Antully Plateau (Autun, France)]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 79:15-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63319 G. Gand. 1976. Coelurosaurichnus palissyi: une nouvelle trace dinosauroïde des Grès à Empreintes du Plateau d’Antully (Sâone-et-Loire – France) [Coelurosaurichnus palissyi: a new dinosauroid trace from the Grès à Empreintes of the Antully Plateau (Sâone-et-Loire – France)]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 79:11-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67979 G. Gand. 1978. Interprétations paléontologique et paléoécologique d'un sixième assemblage à traces de Reptiles des carrières triasiques de Saint-Sernin-du-Bois (Autunois - France). Conclusions générales à l'étude du gisement fossilifère [Paleontological and paleoecological interpretations of a sixth assemblage of reptile traces from the Triassic quarries of Saint-Sernin-du-Bois (Autun - France). General conclusions from the study of the fossiliferous locality]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 87:9-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19626ETE 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]