Pointe du Veillon tracksite, F1 (Triassic of France)

Also known as Veillon Point

Where: Pays de la Loire, France (46.4° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 3.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; black, gray, green, argillaceous, sandy limestone

• "clayey-sandy limestone, gray-green or gray-black, with plant debris, molds of salt crystals, ripple marks, lenses of black clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by A. F. de Lapparent, C. Montenat, G. Bessonnat, M. Ters in 1963, 1965–1966

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

• original discovery of site by Mr. Gilbert Bessonnat

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70801: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus gilberti n. sp. Lapparent and Montenat 1967 aetosaur
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator olonensis n. sp. Lapparent and Montenat 1967 theropod
Grallator variabilis Lapparent and Montenat 1967 theropod