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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Batrachopus deweyi Hitchcock 1843 aetosaur |