Combe à la Serpent (Côte-d'Or) (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Combe a la Serpent, Bourgogne, Burgandy, Cote-d'Or

Where: Bourgogne, France (47.3° N, 5.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.3° N, 23.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Callovian (165.3 - 161.5 Ma)

• Macrocephalus zone.

•"The stratigraphic position of the sample is very exactly known since it comes from the top of the few meters of limestones superimposed on the marls with Brachiopodes."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous carbonate and ooidal marl

• moderate energy, without traces of strong currents and little input of sediment. situated at the limit of the infratidal zone.
• Dominated by bioclasitic "calcaires" and oolites in flagstones with oblique stratifications.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: salvage,

• Vertebrate specimens were in a block of "calcaire".

•Collection of the l'Institut des Sciences de la Terre de l'Université de Dijon.

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut and J. Thierry. 1977. Les Crocodiliens fossiles du Jurassique moyen et superieur de Bourgogne. [The fossil crocodilians from the Middle and Upper Jurassic layers of Burgundy]. Géobios 10(2):151-193 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36451: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 30.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Fragments of Brachyphyllum desnoyersi and the conifer Araucariacae are mentioned though not specifically in association with the vertebrate fossils...
Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus sp. Saint-Hilaire 1825 marine crocodile
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma subcardiiformis Greppin 1867 file clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp., "Alectryonia sp." = Ostrea (Alectryonia)
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Alectryonia sp." = Ostrea (Alectryonia) Fischer de Waldheim 1807 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
"Cererithyris nutiensis" = Apatecosia nutiensis
"Cererithyris nutiensis" = Apatecosia nutiensis Bague 1955
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Digonella divionensis Deslongchamps 1880