Sauclieres tracksite (level I) (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Causse du Larzac, Aveyron, Grands Causses

Where: Region Midi-Pyrenees, France (44.0° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses'

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous dolomite and lithified, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• a bumpy/lumpy dolomite bed overlain by a dolomite bed with cherty nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. R. Demathieu and J. Sciau. 1992. Des pistes de dinosaures et de crocodiliens dans les dolomies de l'Hettangien du Causse du Larzac [Dinosaur and crocodilian trackways in the Hettangian dolomites of the Larzac Causse]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 315:1561-1566 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31306: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 06.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Ichnotaxa
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus deweyi Hitchcock 1843 aetosaur