Airel Quarry: Rhaetian - Hettangian, France
collected by Pareyn 1959
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Porcellispora longdonensis
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Cuny and Galton 1993 | |||||||||
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Lycopsida
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Kraeuselisporites reissingeri
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Cuny and Galton 1993 | |||||||||
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Equisetopsida
- Cheirolepidiaceae
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aff. Classopollis sp.
Pflug 1953
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Cuny and Galton 1993 | |||||||||
| "essentially Classopollis" | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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Semionotus normanniae n. sp.
Larsonneur 1964
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Reptilia
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Halticosaurus sp.
Huene 1908
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= aff. Liliensternus sp.
Welles 1984
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Buffetaut et al. 1991 | |||||||||
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= Liliensternus airelensis n. sp.
Cuny and Galton 1993
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Cuny and Galton 1993 | |||||||||
| recombined as Lophostropheus airelensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Basse-Normandie | County: | Manche |
| Coordinates: | 49.2° North, 1.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 4.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 35 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian - Hettangian |
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moon-Airel | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: uppermost Rhaetian to Hettangian, "Conglomérat et argiles d'Airel" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | lenticular sandy "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "blackish, sandy-clayey beds that cover the sandy limestone lenses" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "margino-littoral deposits" (Buffetaut 1994) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Pareyn | Collection dates: | 1959 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49654 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-21 13:40:39 | Last modified: | 2013-03-20 09:58:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-21 13:40:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13301. | ETE | C. Larsonneur and A. F. Lapparent. 1966. Un dinosaurien carnivore, Halticosaurus, dans le Rhétien d'Airel (Manche) [A dinosaurian carnivore, Halticosaurus, in the Rhaetian of Airel (Manche)]. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 7:108-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19451 | ETE | E. Buffetaut. 1994. The significance of dinosaur remains in marine sediments: an investigation based on the French record. In R. Kohring & T. Martin (eds.), Miscellanea Palaeontologica 3: Festschrift Bernard Krebs. Berliner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen, Reihe E 13:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] | |
| 13303 | ETE | G. Cuny, J. Doubinger, and R. Rauscher. 1991. Is the dinosaur from Airel Triassic in age?. Terra Abstracts 3:333 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13302 | ETE | G. Cuny and P. M. Galton. 1993. Revision of the Airel theropod dinosaur from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (Normany, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 187(3):261-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 23625 | ETE | M. D. Ezcurra and G. Cuny. 2007. The coelophysoid Lophostropheus airelensis, gen. nov.: a review of the systematics of "Liliensternus" airelensis from the Triassic-Jurassic outcrops of Normandy (France). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):73-86 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 45099 | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1967. Les dinosaures de France [The dinosaurs of France]. Sciences 51:4-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 45806 | M. Rioult. 1978. Inventaire des dinosauriens Mesozoïques de Normandie [Inventory of Mesozoic dinosaurs from Normandy]. In M. Rioult (ed.), Ecosystèmes Continentaux Mesozoïques de Normandie 26-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |