Bois de Cassagne, Poligny: Norian, France
collected by S. Chopard 1861

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Pidancet and Chopard 1863
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Gresslyosaurus cf. plieningeri Huene 1905
Galton 1998 10 specimens
    = Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer 1837
Galton 2001
Reptilia
Dimodosaurus poligniensis n. gen., n. sp. Pidancet and Chopard 1862
Pidancet and Chopard 1862 5 individuals
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
POL 31–32, 57, 70, 76
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Jura County:Franche-Comte
Coordinates: 46.8° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.1° North, 8.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marnes irisées supérieures
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Keuper (Knollenmergel equivalent)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "iridescent marls"; theropod teeth from a level "just above" the prosauropod bonebed
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Chopard Collection dates:1861
Collection method comments: Musée de Poligny collection, moved to Université Paris VI
Metadata
Also known as:Dimodosaurus type, Bois de Chassagne
Database number:25836
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-09-25 20:22:49 Last modified:2023-01-10 12:46:48
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-25 20:22:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52220. S. Chopard. 1861. Decouverte d'ossements fossiles près de Poligny [Discovery of fossil bones near Poligny]. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de Poligny (Jura) 2:200-201 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

77207 N. Bardet and G. Cuny. 1993. Triassic reptile faunas from France. In J.-M. Mazin & G. Pinna (ed.), Evolution, Ecology and Biogeography of the Triassic Reptiles. Acts of the Workshop Organized by Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Milano 19–21 Giugno 1991 2:9-18 [M. Carrano/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]
76867 E. Buffetaut, G. Cuny, and J. Le Loeuff. 1993. The discovery of French dinosaurs. Modern Geology 18:161-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52221 S. Chopard. 1862. Discovery of saurian remains in the Keuper of the Jura. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 33:138-139 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/M. Carrano]
60341 P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1997. Institute de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 368-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57408 A. Delesse. 1864. Rapport sur le Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de Poligny (Jura), 4e année, 1863 [Report of the Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de Poligny (Jura), 4th year, 1863]. Review des Sociétés Savantes 6:212-213 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12975ETE P. M. Galton. 1998. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (Dimodosaurus) poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862) (Upper Triassic, Poligny, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 207(2):255-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12994ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46182 A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16920ETE F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [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]
52031 J. Pidancet. 1863. La géologie du Jura [The geology of the Jura]. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de Poligny (Jura) 4:289-293 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52032 J. Pidancet. 1863. Sur un Reptile dinosaurien découvert à Poligny, dans les marnes irisées de la formation du trias [On a dinosaurian reptile discovered at Poligny, in the Marnes Irisées of the Triassic formation]. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de Poligny (Jura) 4:118 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23796ETE J. Pidancet and S. Chopard. 1862. Note sur un Saurien gigantesque appartenant aux marnes irisées [Note on a gigantic saurian pertaining to the Keuper marls]. Compte Rendu des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 54(24):1259-1262 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7187 J. Pidancet and S. Chopard. 1863. Rapport sur un reptile dinosaurien découvert à Poligny (Jura) [Report on a dinosaurian reptile discovered at Poligny (Jura)]. Compte Rendu des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 46(8):290-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83610 O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64085 E. Sauria. 1883. Notice sur le Musée de la ville de Poligny [Notice on the Museum of the city of Poligny]. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de Poligny (Jura) 23:313–316-347–357 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46327 N. Théobald, M. Blanc, and David. 1987. Découverte d'ossements de dinosaure Plateosaurus cf. poligniensis (Pidancet et Chopard) dans les marnes irisées supérieures des environs de Salins (Jura) [Discovery of bones of the dinosaur Plateosaurus cf. poligniensis (Pidancet and Chopard) in the Marnes Irisées Supérieures in the environs of Salins (Jura)]. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle du Doubs 69(1):21-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23520ETE D. B. Weishampel, P. M. Barrett, R. A. Coria, J. Le Loeuff, X. Xu, X. Zhao, A. Sahni, E. M. P. Gomani, and C. R. Noto. 2004. Dinosaur distribution. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 517-606 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]