Solvay Group/Inovyn company quarry, Dôle, Damparis: Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian, France
collected by J. de Dorlodot 1934

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bennettitales
Zamites sp. Brongniart 1828
Pterophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828
Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
"plant debris"
Reptilia
Megalosauridae indet. (Fitzinger 1843)
7 specimens
teeth
    = Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870
Lapparent 1943
MNHN.F.1934.6 DAM45-48
    = Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Mannion et al. 2017
original and current combination Megalosauri
Reptilia - Brachiosauridae
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
1 individual
    = Bothriospondylus madagascariensis Lydekker 1895
Lapparent 1943
MNHN - "French Bothriospondylus"
    = Brachiosauridae indet. Riggs 1904
Le Loeuff et al. 2006
    = Vouivria damparisensis n. gen., n. sp. Mannion et al. 2017
Mannion et al. 2017
MNHN.F.1934.6 DAM 1-42 - holotype
Reptilia - Lacertilia
"Lacertilia" indet. Owen 1842
"lizard skin" impressions
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
    = Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849
Buffetaut 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Franche-Comté County:Jura
Coordinates: 47.1° North, 5.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 14.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:200 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcaires de Clerval
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Calcaires de Clerval Formation, possibly from the Tidalites de Mouchard Member. The age is constrained to the Rotoides or Stenocycloides subzones, late middle Oxfordian to early late Oxfordian (Mannion et al. 2017)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine "limestone"
Secondary lithology:gray argillaceous,calcareous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: found in "a marly lens situated in a calcareous series...fine limestones...a gray limestone with marly-calcareous cement, colored by organic matter, containing some quartz grains." The lens separates two lithographic limestones.
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: semi-restricted lagoonal environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:J. de Dorlodot Collection dates:April 1934
Collection method comments: discovered by Baron J. de Dordolot
Metadata
Also known as:Carrière de la Compagnie Solvay; "French Bothriospondylus"
Database number:85257
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-12-08 13:52:42 Last modified:2021-06-16 08:50:52
Access level:the public Released:2008-12-08 13:52:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63196. J. d. Dorlodot. 1934. L’exploration du gîte à dinosauriens Jurassiques de Damparis [Exploration of the Juraassic dinosaur locality in Damparis]. La Terre et la Vie 4(10):563-586 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

28701ETE E. Buffetaut. 1988. Les restes de dinosaures de l'Oxfordien supérieur de Damparis (Jura): preuves d'emersion sur place [The dinosaur remains from the upper Oxfordian of Damparis (Jura): evidence for burial in place]. Revue de Paléobiologie 7(2):301-306 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58778 E. Buffetaut. 1997. European dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 212-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58796 E. Buffetaut. 1997. History of dinosaur discoveries. III. Quiet times. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 350-352 [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]
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]
42505% 46660A. F. d. Lapparent. 1943. Les dinosauriens jurassiques de Damparis (Jura) [The Jurassic dinosaurs of Damparis (Jura)]. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (Nouvelle Série), Mémoire 21(47):1-21 [M. Carrano/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]
38534 J. Le Loeuff, C. Gourrat, P. Landry, L. Hautier, R. Liard, C. Souillat, E. Buffetaut and R. Enay. 2006. A Late Jurassic sauropod tracksite from Southern Jura (France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 5:705-709 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
38078 P. D. Mannion. 2010. A revision of the sauropod dinosaur genus 'Bothriospondylus' with a redescription of the type material of the Middle Jurassic form 'B. madagascariensis. Palaeontology 53(2):277-296 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
62226 P. D. Mannion, R. Allain, and O. Moine. 2017. The earliest known titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of Brachiosauridae. PeerJ 5:e3217:1-82 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
47360 J. Viret. 1935. Sur la découverte de Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique des environs de Dôle [On the discovery of dinosaurs in the Jurassic of the environs of Dôle]. Revue générale des Sciences pures et appliquées 46:237 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]