Courtedoux/Chevenez tracksites (level 1055): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Switzerland
collected 2004–2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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9 individuals | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Parabrontopodidae
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| CTD-TCH-1055-S4 | ||||||||||
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= ? Parabrontopodus sp.
Lockley et al. 1995
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Marty et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Switzerland | State/province: | Jura | County: | Ajoie |
| Coordinates: | 47.4° North, 7.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.4° North, 15.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Ammonoid zone: | Aulacostephanoides mutabilis |
| Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Reuchenette | Member: | Courtedoux | ||
| Local section: | Transjurane | Local bed: | 1055 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from a layer between the Banné Member and the "Marnes à Virgula". Within the mutabilis Ammonite zone, and the lallierianum subzone. From level 1055. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "moist carbonate mud" | |
| Environment: | peritidal |
| Geology comments: "a thin layer of plastic carbonate mud or microbial mats" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2004–2007 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CTD-TCH-1055, Courtedoux-Tchâfouè | ||
| Database number: | 149601 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-08-13 08:13:48 | Last modified: | 2021-04-22 14:43:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-08-13 08:13:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47966. | D. Marty, J. Ayer, D. Becker, J.-P. Berger, J.-P. Billon-Bruyat, L. Braillard, W. A. Hug and C. A. Meyer. 2007. Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites of the Transjurane highway (Canton Jura, NW Switzerland): overview and measures for their protection and valorisation. Bulletin für Angewandte Geologie 12(1):75-89 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 47928 | D. Marty, M. Belvedere, C. A. Meyer, P. Mietto, G. Paratte, C. Lovis, and B. Thüring. 2010. Comparative analysis of Late Jurassic sauropod trackways from the Jura Mountains (NW Switzerland) and the central High Atlas Mountains (Morocco): implications for sauropod ichnotaxonomy. Historical Biology 22(1–3):109-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 50537 | D. Marty, C. A. Meyer, M. Belvedere, J. Ayer, and K. L. Schäfer. 2013. Rochefort–Les Grattes: an Early Tithonian dinosaur tracksite from the Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Revue de Paléobiologie 32(2):373-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 47929 | D. Marty, G. Paratte, C. Lovis, M. Cattin, W. A. Hug, P. Morisod, C. A. Meyer, C. Denier, J. Pulfer, T. Hanusch, and D. Vogel. 2012. Acquisition, procession & curation of digital 3D data from Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites excavated prior to the construction of Highway A16 (Canton Jura, NW Switzerland). Digital Fossil – International Conference on Fossil Digitizing and Digital Collection Datahandling in 2012, September 24–26. Museum für Naturkünde, Berlin [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76343 | C. A. Meyer, D. Marty, and M. Belvedere. 2018. Titanosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation of Bolivia (Cal Orck’o, Sucre). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 88:223-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |