Provenchères-sur-Meuse: Rhaetian, France
collected by Thiéry & Corroy 1868

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Thecodontosaurus elisae n. sp. Sauvage 1907
Sauvage 1907 1 specimen
recombined as Plateosaurus elizae
tooth
Reptilia
? Zanclodon sp. Plieninger 1846
1 specimen
claw
    = Gresslyosaurus ingens Rütimeyer 1856
Huene 1914
    = Gresslyosaurus sp. Rütimeyer 1856
Lapparent 1967
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
Termatosaurus alberti (Meyer and Plieninger 1844)
Corroy 1934
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
UPMC
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosaurus carinatus Cuvier 1824
Sauvage 1907 2 specimens
vertebrae
Reptilia - Shastasauridae
? Ichthyosaurus cf. rheticus Sauvage 1876
Sauvage 1907 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Shastasauridae
vertebra
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus latissimus Agassiz 1838
Corroy 1934
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
Corroy 1934
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminatus
Corroy 1934
Severnichthys sp. Storrs 1994
Cuny 1995 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Birgeria
Thomassin coll.
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodus maximus Dames 1888
Corroy 1934
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Corroy 1934
Palaeoniscoidea
Palaeoniscoidea indet.
Cuny 1995
invalid subgroup of Actinopterygii
Birgeria- and Saurichthys-type teeth
Chondrichthyes
Holocephali indet. (Bonaparte 1832)
Cuny 1995 1 specimen
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I no. 93308
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
Corroy 1934
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz 1836
Cuny 1995
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
? Palaeobates sp.
Cuny 1995 1 specimen
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I no. 93300
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Cuny 1995
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Polyacrodus minimus Agassiz 1939
Corroy 1934
Hybodus cloacinus Quenstedt 1858
Corroy 1934
recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus
UPMC
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica oppeli
Corroy 1934
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola minuta Goldfuss 1833
Corroy 1934
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Corroy 1934
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys valoniensis (Defrance 1825)
Corroy 1934
recombined as Praechlamys valoniensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma praecursor Quenstedt 1856
Corroy 1934
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Avicula contorta Portlock 1843
Corroy 1934
recombined as Rhaetavicula contorta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium cloacinum Quenstedt 1856
Corroy 1934
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Anatina praecursor Oppel 1858
Corroy 1934
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria postera
Corroy 1934
unclassified
Cycadophyta indet. Bessey 1907
Corroy 1934
Coniferophyta indet.
Corroy 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Champagne-Ardennes County:Haute-Marne
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 5.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 8.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Rhaetian
Age range of interval:208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès de Infralias
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: originally "infra-Lias"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Un bone-bed composé de poudingue et de plaquettes ondulées de grès gros- sier jaunâtre surmonte les gros bancs de grès."
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Thiéry & Corroy Collection dates:1868
Metadata
Database number:139922
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-21 10:42:18 Last modified:2023-01-10 12:49:18
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-21 10:42:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46182. A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
77165 G. Corroy. 1934. Étude stratigraphique et tectonique des régions Nord du seuil de Bourgogne et du bassin des Eaux minérales vosgiennes [Stratigraphic and tectonic study of the northern regions of the threshold of Burgundy and the basin of the Vosges mineral waters ]. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, IIe Série 7(1):1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77771 G. Cuny. 1995. Evolution des faunes de vertébrés à la limite trias-jurassique: apports de la Lorraine [Evolution of vertebrate faunas at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: contributions from Lorraine]. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 104(1-2):55-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [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]
83610 O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45243 H.-E. Sauvage. 1907. Vertébrés [Vertebrates]. Note sur L'Infralias de Provenchères-sur-Meuse 6-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]