la Gironnette, Corgnac-sur-L'Isle (Jurassic of France)

Where: Aquitaine, France (45.4° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

• "a thin dolomitic layer [of limestone] with mud-cracks indicating an emersion at the end of a regressive sequence (underlying beds contain stromatolitic horizons)."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J.-P. Petit in 1995-1996

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Le Loeuff, M. G. Lockley, C. Meyer and J.-P. Petit. 1999. Discovery of a thyreophoran trackway in the Hettangian of central France. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 328:215-219 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48852: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Thyreophora indet. ornithischian
trackway
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
unknown number of trackways from large and small theropods