Puech de Castres tracksite (lower) (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès et Argilites bariolées Formation, Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• 2 levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; dolomitic sandstone

• "a vast floodplain in which fluvial channels periodically occurred"
• outcrops show "cross stratifications, desiccation cracks, palaeosols (root casts), local carbonaceous or lignitous layers and plant remains"; tracks in "two sandstone dolomitic layers" (1, 6)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J.-D. Moreau, G. Gand, E. Fara and A. Michelin. 2012. Biometric and morphometric approaches on Lower Hettangian dinosaur footprints from the Rodez Strait (Aveyron, France). Comptes Rendus Palevol 11:231-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223718: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.11.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Dilophosauripus williamsi, Grallator sp., Eubrontes sp.
Dilophosauripus williamsi Welles 1971 theropod
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod