Place Thiers: Early/Lower Toarcian, France
collected 1978
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Leptolepideoidea indet.
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Reptilia
- Rhamphorhynchidae
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Dorygnathus banthensis
(Theodori 1831)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Dimorphodon banthensis | ||||||||||
| SMNS 81840, disarticulated partial skeleton | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Teleosauridae
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Steneosaurus sp.
Saint-Hilaire 1825
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Reptilia
- Ichthyosauridae
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Ichthyosauridae indet.
Bonaparte 1841
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Actinopteri
- Pachycormiformes
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Pachycormiformes indet.
Berg 1940
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
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Semionotiformes indet.
Arambourg and Bertin 1958
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus cf. hauffianus
Fraas 1895
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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Polyacrodus sp.
Jaekel 1889
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Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Lorraine | County: | Meurthe-et-Moselle |
| Coordinates: | 48.7° North, 6.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 15.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Toarcian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Toarcian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Lithology description: "Les argilites papyracées ou 'schistes bitumineux' du Toarcien inférieur" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMNS | Collection dates: | 1978 |
| Collection method comments: specimens collected by examining cut surfaces of mudstones removed during construction. Some material obtained by the SMNS in 1999 | |
| Taxonomic list comments:fauna partially described by Lamaud 1979, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. du Pays de Montbéliard, but this sounds like a cursory discussion that may only concern the sharks | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Nancy | ||
| Database number: | 68316 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-01-15 15:05:19 | Last modified: | 2009-10-05 09:40:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-01-15 15:05:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19652. | 5% 54120 | D. Delsate and R. Wild. 2000. Premiere decouverte d'un reptile volant determinable (Pterosauria, Dorygnathus cf banthensis) du Toarcien inferieur (Jurassique inferieur) de Nancy (Lorraine, France). Bulletin de l'Académie et de la Societé Lorraine des Sciences 39(1-4):3-14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 30856 | K. Padian. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori, 1830). Special Papers in Palaeontology 80:1-64 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |