north of Gray (Jurassic to of France)

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

• "shallow marine environment"
• based on matrix surrounding bones: ferruginous oolite

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
  -
 Eukaryota -
Pterospermopsis sp. Wetzel 1952 acritarchs
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales -
Retitriletes austroclavatidites Döring et al. 1963 clubmoss
 Selaginellales -
Densoisporites perinatus Brenner 1963 clubmoss
Cerebropollenites
  -
Alisporites
  -
Pteridopsida
  -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Callialasporites trilobatus Balme 1957 podocarp
Callialasporites dampieri Balme 1957 podocarp
Prasinophytae
  -
Tasmanites sp. Newton 1875
Polychaeta
 Eunicemorpha -
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
femur
Dinophyceae
  - Pareodiniaceae
Pareodinia ceratophora Deflandre 1947
  -
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
  - Nannoceratopsiaceae