La Pissoire Quarries, EF4 tracksite: Anisian - Ladinian, France
collected by G. Gand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950
1 individual
piste A
    = Brachychirotherium pachydactylum Demathieu and Gand 1973
Gand 1974
Reptilia - Rotodactylidae
? Rotodactylus sp. Peabody 1948
1 individual
EF4 II
    = Rotodactylus lucasi Demathieu and Gand 1973
Gand 1974
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Anchisauripus bibractensis Demathieu 1971
Gand 1974 1 individual
EF4 VIII-c
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Bourgogne-Franche-Comté County:Saône-et-Loire
Coordinates: 46.8° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.6° North, 16.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:453 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Anisian - Ladinian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès d'Antully
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous,sandy claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a natural mixture of an ancient clayey-sandy soil with reptile traces, which were not preserved in out study area." (translated by M. Carrano).
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: shallow marine environment with ripple-marks, lagoonal. Regression or evaporation leaves salt-water pools separated by small wrinkled "domes". Animals supposedly left traces immediately afterward, because the "wrinkled zone" shows neither tracks nor evaporites.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:G. Gand
Metadata
Also known as:Saint-Sernin-du-Bois, EF 4
Database number:199909
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-02-19 15:01:22 Last modified:2020-01-14 10:04:44
Access level:the public Released:2019-02-19 15:01:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17969.ETE G. Gand. 1971. Découverte de documents ichnologiques nouveaux dans les carrières de la Pissoire (Plateau d’Antully–Saône-et-Loire) [Discovery of new ichnological documents in the la Pissoire quarries (Antully plateau–Saône-et-Loire)]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 58:3-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17967ETE G. Gand. 1974. Les traces de vertébrés triasiques de l’Autunois et du Nord du Charollais [Triassic vertebrate traces from the Autunois and the northern Charollais]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 69:7-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71501 G. Gand. 1975. Sur les Traces des Premièrs Dinosaures Morvandiaux [On the Traces of the First Morvandian Dinosaurs] 1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17957ETE G. Gand. 1975. Sur l’interpretation paléozoologique d’un nouvel assemblage ichnologique des carrières de Saint-Sernin-du-Bois (Saône-et-Loire) [On the paleozoological interpretation of a new ichnological assemblage from the Saint-Sernin-du-Bois quarries (Saône-et-Loire)]. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle et des Amis du Muséum d'Autun 73:6-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]