Where: Franche-Comté, France (47.6° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Callovian to Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• unnamed beds, either Coronatum or Athleta Zone; Originally labeled as coming from the Minerai de Fer d'Autrey, but this is a Neogene bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; ferruginous, ooidal carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collected by Lépine in 1846
• Original label signed "Don d'Auguste Lépine, 1846"
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, G. Lachkar, D. Contini, A. Pharisat and B. Vienet. 1995. Le fémur de dinosaure théropode du Musée d'Histoire naturelle de Gray (Haute-Sâone): identification, datation et essai de localisation de l'origine d'un fossile inhabituel [The theropod dinosaur femur from the Natural History Museum of Gray Haute-Sâone, France): identification, dating and determination of the geographic origin of an unusual fossil]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 166(1):69-75 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 142143: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pterospermopsis sp. Wetzel 1952 acritarchs
Micrhystridium lymensis acritarchs
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941 | |
Cerebropollenites | |
Callialasporites trilobatus Balme 1957 podocarp
Callialasporites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Densoisporites fissus clubmoss
Densoisporites perinatus Brenner 1963 clubmoss | |
Retitriletes austroclavatidites Döring et al. 1963 clubmoss | |
Pteridopsida | |
Cyathidites minor Couper 1953
Deltoidospora toralis Lund 1977 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucariacites australis Cookson 1947 | |
Prasinophytae | |
Tasmanites sp. Newton 1875 | |
Reptilia | |
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Polychaeta | |
Dinophyceae | |
Escharisphaeridia pocockii, Ctenidodinium tenellum, Sirmiodiniopsis orbis, Sirmiodinium grossii, Gonyaulacysta jurassica, Gonyaulacysta dualis, Tubotuberella apatella, Sentusidinium villersense, Surculosphaeridium vestitum, Chytroeisphaeridia chytroeides
Ctenidodinium tenellum Deflandre 1938
Sirmiodinium grossii Alberti 1961
Gonyaulacysta jurassica Deflandre 1964
Gonyaulacysta dualis Stover and Evitt 1978
Chytroeisphaeridia chytroeides Sarjeant 1979 | |
Stephanelytron scarburghense Sarjeant 1961 | |
Nannoceratopsis pellucida Deflandre 1938 | |
Pareodinia ceratophora Deflandre 1947 |