Sauclieres tracksite (level V) (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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray dolomite

• The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses'
• 60 cm of gray, finely-laminated, 3/4cm-thick dolomite beds

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 31308: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 06.05.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• Ichnotaxa (Grallator variabilis, G. sauclierensis nov. ichnosp., G. minusculus, Dilophosauripus williamsi)
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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
indeterminate tridactyl ichnogenus
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator variabilis, Grallator sauclierensis n. sp., Dilophosauripus williamsi, "Grallator minusculus" = Eubrontes minusculus
Grallator variabilis Lapparent and Montenat 1967 theropod
Grallator sauclierensis n. sp. Demathieu and Sciau 1992 theropod
Dilophosauripus williamsi Welles 1971 theropod
1 trackway w/12 prints
"Grallator minusculus" = Eubrontes minusculus Hitchcock 1837 theropod