Saint-Germain tracksite (St G) (Triassic to of France)

Also known as Mont d'Or Lyonnais

Where: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (45.9° N, 4.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• 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: trace

Collected by Thoral & David, L. Courel in 1948

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

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 199934: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium sp.2 Kaup 1835 archosaur
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides petri1 Demathieu 1966 squamates