Combe quarry, Saint-Gaultier (Jurassic of France)

Also known as Carrière de la Combe

Where: Centre, France (46.6° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• "Vésulien"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; chalk

• deep-water carbonate?, ref 47183: "a marine setting of confined shallow water"
• "calcaire subcrayeux"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Benoist

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67992: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
tooth
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
tooth; "close to the Upper Jurassic species"
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
"Strophodus magnus" = Asteracanthus magnus
"Strophodus magnus" = Asteracanthus magnus Agassiz 1838 elasmobranch
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Parkinsonia parkinsoni Sowerby 1821 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae