Chavardon trail, Saléve tracksite (Cretaceous of France)

Where: Rhone-Alpes, France (46.1° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• top of the Purbeck facies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lime mudstone

• "level with algal mats rich in 'birds-eyes'"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by P.-O. Mojon in 1989

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P.-O. Mojon. 2001. Dinosauriens éocretacés des facies purbeckiens (Berriasien inférieur) du Jura méridional (S.-E. de la France) [Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Purbeck facies (lower Berriasian) of the southern Jura (SE France)]. Archives des Sciences Genève 54(1):1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166080: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
cf. Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
footprint