Combe quarry, Saint-Gaultier: Bathonian, France
collected by Benoist
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Megalosaurus bucklandi
(Mantell 1827)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| tooth | ||||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Buffetaut 1994 | |||||||||
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Pelorosaurus sp.
Mantell 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| tooth; "close to the Upper Jurassic species" | ||||||||||
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= Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Buffetaut 1994 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Strophodus magnus
Agassiz 1838
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| recombined as Asteracanthus magnus | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
- Belemnitidae
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Belemnites bessinus
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Stephanoceratidae
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Parkinsonia parkinsoni
(Sowerby 1821)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Centre | County: | Indre |
| Coordinates: | 46.6° North, 1.4° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.3° North, 12.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Bathonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Vésulien" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | chalk |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "calcaire subcrayeux" | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: deep-water carbonate?, ref 47183: "a marine setting of confined shallow water" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Benoist |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Carrière de la Combe | ||
| Database number: | 67992 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-20 13:19:20 | Last modified: | 2013-06-13 10:40:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-12-20 13:19:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42903. | H.-E. Sauvage. 1900. Note sur les Poissons et les Reptiles du Jurassique inférieur du département de l'Indre [Note on the fishes and reptiles from the Lower Jurassic of the department of Indre]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 28:500-504 [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] | |
| 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] | |
| 47183 | P. Vignaud, F. de Broin, M. Brunet, E. Cariou, P. Hantzpergue and B. Lange-Badre. 1994. Les faunes des vertébrés jurassiques de la bordure nord-orientale du bassin d'Aquitaine (France): biochronologie et environnements [Jurassic vertebrate faunas from the northeastern border of the Aquitaine Basin (France): biochronology and environments]. In E. Carious & P. Hantzpergue (ed.), 3ème Symposium International de Stratigraphie du Jurassique, Poitiers, 22–29 Septembre 1991. Geobios, Mémoire spécial 17:493-503 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |