La Lieude footprints, Lodève basin (Permian of France)

Also known as Réserve Naturelle Volontaire

Where: Hérault, France (43.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: F5 Member (Salagou Formation), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• "[Vertebrate footprints are at the top of the second cycle of Permian Basin sediment, better known in the literature as the Saxonian]" (Gand et al. 2000)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: G. Gand, J. Garric, G. Demathieu and P. Ellenberger. 2000. La Palichnofaune de vertebres tetrapodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc - France). Palaeovertebrata 29(1):1-82 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199767: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 14.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Lunaepes ollierorum n. sp. Gand et al. 2000 tetrapod
Site B - "P2.9" and "M2.9" (holotype); 633 prints in 10 tracks
Merifontichnus thalerius n. gen. n. sp. Gand et al. 2000 tetrapod
Site B - "M1", track 1, "P13", track 2 (holotype); track 1 consists of 45 footprints, track 2 has 93 footprints
 Therapsida -
"Planipes brachydactylus n. sp." = Brontopus antecursor, "Brontopus giganteus n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus, "Brontopus circagiganteus n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus, "Moschopus enormis n. gen. n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus
"Planipes brachydactylus n. sp." = Brontopus antecursor Ellenberger 1983 therapsid
Site B - "P11.7", track 7, "M2.6", track 6 (holotype); tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12, consisting of 55, 23, 33, 23 and 7 prints respectively
"Brontopus giganteus n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963 therapsid
Site A
"Brontopus circagiganteus n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963 therapsid
Site B - "P33" and "M19" of track 13 (holotype); track contains 42 footprints
"Moschopus enormis n. gen. n. sp." = Brontopus giganteus Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963 therapsid