Sauclieres tracksite (level IV): Hettangian, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator minusculus (Hitchcock 1837)
recombined as Eubrontes minusculus
Grallator sauclierensis Demathieu and Sciau 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Region Midi-Pyrenees County:Aveyron Departement
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 3.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° North, 8.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic - Early/Lower Jurassic *Epoch:Early/Lower Lias - Early/Lower Lias
*International age/stage:Hettangian - Hettangian
Key time interval:Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Sauclières Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,gray lithified dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 40 cm of several thin, 'varved' gray beds
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
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),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Ichnotaxa (Grallator sauclierensis nov. ichnosp., G. minusculus)
Metadata
Also known as:Causse du Larzac, Aveyron, Grands Causses
Database number:31307
Authorizer:E. Fara, M. Carrano Enterer:E. Fara, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-05-06 08:21:47 Last modified:2019-11-26 09:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-06 08:21:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8442.5% 17120G. 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]

Secondary references:

70332 G. Demathieu, G. Gand, J. Sciau, P. Freytet, and J. Garric. 2002. Les traces de pas de dinosaures et autres archosaures du Lias inferieur des Grands Causses, Sud de la France [The footprints of dinosaurs and other archosaurs from the lower Lias of the Grands Causses, South of France]. Palaeovertebrata 31(1–4):1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
48040 G. R. S. Demathieu. 1993. Empreintes de pas de dinosaures dans les Causses (France) [Dinosaur footprints in the Causses (France)]. Zubía 5:229-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63940 J.-D. Moreau, E. Fara, D. Néraudeau and G. Gand. 2019. New Hettangian tracks from the Causses Basin (Lozère, southern France) complement the poor fossil record of earliest Jurassic crocodylomorphs in Europe. Historical Biology 31(3):341-352 [M. Uhen/M. Smith/M. Carrano]