Courtedoux/Chevenez tracksites (level 1035): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Switzerland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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19 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Eubrontidae
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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6 individuals | |||||||||
| BSY-1035-T6 | ||||||||||
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= cf. Megalosauripus sp.
Lessertisseur 1955
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Marty and Billon-Bruyat 2009 | |||||||||
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= Megalosauripus transjuranicus
Razzolini et al. 2017
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Razzolini et al. 2017 | |||||||||
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Megalosauripus cf. transjuranicus
Razzolini et al. 2017
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Razzolini et al. 2017 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
| TCH-BSY-1035-T1, T7 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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10 individuals | |||||||||
| 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: | 1035 | ||
| 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 1035 | |||||
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 moist carbonate mud or microbial mat" | |
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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CTD-BSY-1035, Courtedoux-Bois de Sylleux | ||
| Database number: | 149742 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-08-24 04:57:56 | Last modified: | 2022-09-29 11:29:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-08-24 04:57:56 |
| 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:
| 70732 | J. N. Lallensack, P. M. Sander, N. Knötschke and O. Wings. 2015. Dinosaur tracks from the Langenberg Quarry (Late Jurassic, Germany) reconstructed with historical photogrammetry: evidence for large theropods soon after insular dwarfism. Palaeontologia Electronica 18(2):31A:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76597 | D. Marty, M. Belvedere, N. L. Razzolini, M. G. Lockley, G. Paratte, M. Cattin, C. Lovis and C. A. Meyer. 2018. The tracks of giant theropods (Jurabrontes curtedulensis ichnogen. & ichnosp. nov.) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland: palaeoecological & palaeogeographical implications. Historical Biology 30:928-956 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82747 | D. Marty and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2009. Field-trip to the excavations in the Late Jurassic along the future Transjurane highway near Porrentruy (Canton Jura, NW Switzerland): dinosaur tracks, marine vertebrates and invertebrates. In J.-P. Billon-Bruyat, D. Marty, L. Costeur, C. A. Meyer, & B. Thüring (eds.), 5th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk. Abstracts and Field Guides. Actes de la Société Jurassienne d’Émulation 2009 bis:94-129 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82748 | G. Paratte, M. Lapaire, C. Lovis and D. Marty. 2018. Traces de Dinosaures Jurassiques. Courtedoux-Béchat Bovais [Jurassic Dinosaur Tracks. Courtedoux-Béchat Bovais]. Catalogues du Patrimoine Paléontologique Jurassien–A16 (CPPJ–A16) 1-305 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 62817 | N. L. Razzolini, M. Belvedere, D. Marty, G. Paratte, C. Lovis, M. Cattin, and C. A. Meyer. 2017. Megalosauripus transjuranicus ichnosp. nov. A new Late Jurassic theropod ichnotaxon from NW Switzerland and implications for tridactyl dinosaur ichnology and ichnotaxomy. PLoS ONE 12(7):e0180289:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |