Pointe du Veillon tracksite, F1: Rhaetian, France
collected by A. F. de Lapparent, C. Montenat, G. Bessonnat, M. Ters 1963, 1965–1966
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Chirotherium sp.
Kaup 1835
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Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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? Pseudosuchia indet.
(Zittel 1890)
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= Batrachopus gilberti n. sp.
Lapparent and Montenat 1967
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Coelurosauria indet.
(Huene 1914)
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160 specimens | |||||||||
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= Grallator olonensis n. sp.
Lapparent and Montenat 1967
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| B I to B XII | ||||||||||
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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= Grallator variabilis
Lapparent and Montenat 1967
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Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Pays de la Loire | County: | Vendée |
| Coordinates: | 46.4° North, 1.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.4° North, 3.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Veillon | Local bed: | 5 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,black,gray,green argillaceous,sandy "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "clayey-sandy limestone, gray-green or gray-black, with plant debris, molds of salt crystals, ripple marks, lenses of black clay" | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. F. de Lapparent, C. Montenat, G. Bessonnat, M. Ters | Collection dates: | 1963, 1965–1966 |
| Collection method comments: original discovery of site by Mr. Gilbert Bessonnat | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Veillon Point | ||
| Database number: | 70801 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-06 14:38:20 | Last modified: | 2019-11-25 15:10:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-06 14:38:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 71060. | G. Bessonnat, A. F. d. Lapparent, C. Montenat and M. Ters. 1965. Découverte de nombreuses empreintes de pas de Reptiles dans le Lias infeerieur de la côte de Vendée [Discovery of numerous footprints of reptiles in the lower Lias of the Vendée coast]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences 260(5):5324-5326 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 45554 | E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1991. French dinosaurs: the best record in Europe?. Modern Geology 16:17-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63494 | L. Courel, G. Demathieu, and R. Buffard. 1968. Empreintes de pas de Vertébrés et stratigraphie du Trias [Vertebrate footprints and Triassic stratigraphy]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 10:275-281 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63323 | G. R. Demathieu and H. Haubold. 1972. Stratigraphische Aussagen der Tetrapodenfährten aus der terrestrischen Trias Europas [Stratigraphic statements about the tetrapod tracks from the European terrestrial Triassic]. Geologie 21:802-836 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 23532 | ETE | A. F. d. Lapparent and C. Montenat. 1967. Les empreintes de pas de reptiles de l'Infralias de Veillon (Vendée) [Reptile footprints from the lower Lias of Veillon (Vendée)]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 107:1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 70968 | C. Montenat and A. F. d. Lapparent. 1966. La plage aux Dinosaures [The dinosaur beach]. Nouvelles de l’Institut Catholique de Paris 4:10-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 68911 | J.-M. Viaud and S. Duclous. 2003. Journées d'étude des 28 et 29 mars 2002 à Talmont-Saint-Hilaire (Vendée). Les sites à traces de pas de vertébrés vers la limite Trias-Jurassique [Research days of March 28 and 29, 2002 at Talmont-Saint-Hulaire (Vendée). Vertebrate footprint sites near the Triassic–Jurassic boundary]. Le Naturaliste Vendéen 3:3-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 47183 | P. Vignaud, F. de Broin, M. Brunet, E. Cariou, P. Hantzpergue and B. Lange-Badre. 1994. Les faunes des vertébrés jurassiques de la bordure nord-orientale du bassin d'Aquitaine (France): biochronologie et environnements [Jurassic vertebrate faunas from the northeastern border of the Aquitaine Basin (France): biochronology and environments]. In E. Carious & P. Hantzpergue (ed.), 3ème Symposium International de Stratigraphie du Jurassique, Poitiers, 22–29 Septembre 1991. Geobios, Mémoire spécial 17:493-503 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |