Sauclieres tracksite (level V): Hettangian, France
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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| indeterminate tridactyl ichnogenus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator minusculus
(Hitchcock 1837)
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| recombined as Eubrontes minusculus | ||||||||||
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Grallator sauclierensis n. sp.
Demathieu and Sciau 1992
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Grallator variabilis
Lapparent and Montenat 1967
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Dilophosauripus williamsi
Welles 1971
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1 individual | |||||||||
| 1 trackway w/12 prints | ||||||||||
| 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: | 5 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,gray lithified dolomite |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: 60 cm of gray, finely-laminated, 3/4cm-thick dolomite beds | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: The facies of this collection corresponds to the 'dolomie cubique de l'Hettangien des Causses' | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Ichnotaxa (Grallator variabilis, G. sauclierensis nov. ichnosp., G. minusculus, Dilophosauripus williamsi) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Causse du Larzac, Aveyron, Grands Causses | ||
| Database number: | 31308 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, M. Carrano | Enterer: | E. Fara, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-05-06 08:35:24 | Last modified: | 2019-11-26 09:49:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-05-06 08:35:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8442. | 5% 17120 | G. 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] |