Bois de Cassagne, Poligny (Triassic of France)

Also known as Dimodosaurus type, Bois de Chassagne

Where: Jura, France (46.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 8.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marnes irisées supérieures Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Middle Keuper (Knollenmergel equivalent)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

• "iridescent marls"; theropod teeth from a level "just above" the prosauropod bonebed

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. Chopard in 1861

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

• Musée de Poligny collection, moved to Université Paris VI

Primary reference: S. Chopard. 1861. Decouverte d'ossements fossiles près de Poligny [Discovery of fossil bones near Poligny]. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de Poligny (Jura) 2:200-201 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25836: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
Plateosaurus engelhardti1
Plateosaurus engelhardti1 Meyer 1837 plateosaurid
 Saurischia -
Dimodosaurus poligniensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Dimodosaurus poligniensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Pidancet and Chopard 1862 prosauropod
POL 31–32, 57, 70, 76
1Galton 2001; 2Pidancet and Chopard 1862; 3Pidancet and Chopard 1863